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although he could only confirm that he was not sure whether both of them had held their hand high, as is customary with the German greeting, since he only saw the lifting of the hand. However, what was then further, he no longer observed. The captain was later terminated on one occasion for this reason and the cadett was transferred to the lower Danube for a long period of time. 4. The next victim was the captain Gustav S c h ö b e l also csl.Citizen of the State, German nationality, who had to be terminated after a long period of service for the reason that one of his brothers remained in Austria at the collapse of the Austrian monarchy and had been appointed an officer of the general staff there. This fact alone has led the police authorities in Prussia to send him a decree - according to the opinion of Dr. Gasperik, who was supposed to have intervened in this matter with the police themselves - in which he was called "politically unreliable" by the state protection law and had to leave the company immediately according to this law. This process has generally surprised, since every layman is aware that a ship captain on the Danube, who spends almost exclusively his entire life only on the water, largely abroad and very little in Czechoslovakia, cannot experience and betray military secrets in the inland. This captain was very popular with the Sehniff occupation and shows this case how the citizens were raised to loyalty to their own state, so that they only had to have a certain existence abroad. Captain Schöbel, like Jung, was immediately hired to a foreign shipping company, and it is obvious that he will certainly not be commendable about the system in his home country. The helmsman A u g e n h a m e r Karl, csl. state citizen, (now German), German nationality, was terminated because he had received permission from his commander (on a passenger ship) to visit his relatives there on 21 May and to remain with them until the return of German Altenburg on the same afternoon. Some of the chauvinists - as this was the well-known critical day - saw for no reason an espionage verdačht and filed the complaint. The captain was transferred to the lower Danube by penalty. 6. Karl T y r o c h , the captain of the ship, csl.citizen, German nationality, residing in Linz, was dismissed only because of his German nationality after many years of service 7. Captain L. · V e t t e r , a Linz Polish citizen, who almost from all beginnings, d.i. about 1920 in the service of the Dunajplavda, was terminated under the most unworthy circumstances. This captain, who was a Polish citizen to his parents and completely mastered the csl. language, was always very loyal to the czl. state already with regard to the fact that he had relatives in Prague. Nevertheless, for a long time the ship's command was taken from him, which was •/.