NEW CHURCH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 9

NEW CHURCH.

GERMAN PROPOSAL. Hitler Asked to Guarantee Independence. EVANGELICAL CREED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, April 7. The Nazis propose to create a new evangelical church and to demand adherence to the following creed:— "God made me German. Germanism is the gift of God. God wishes that I should fight for my Germanism. Military service is never a violation of Christianity, but is obedient to the will of God." The tenets of the new creed include one that all Protestants who marry members of an alien race shall be expelled from the Church.

Pastor Wieneke, one of the promoters, says: "Were Christ to reappear on earth He would be the leader of a war on Marxism and internationalism."

The abolition of the Old Testament is demanded and the substitution of German sagas and legends in order to replace the Hebrew prophets by personages in German philosophy and art and so ensure uniformity with the national revolution.

This demand has been brought to Herr Hitler's "notice by the supreme council of the Church with a reminder >hat he guaranteed the Church's independence.

NO MORE ELECTIONS. System of Dictators for German States. HITLER COMPLETE RULE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) BERLIN, April 7. The Reichstag contemplates the passing of a law to dispense with Parliamentary elections by administrators authorised to nominate Premiers and Cabinet Ministers in all Federal States, also empowered to compel the resignation of Governments whose policies conflict with that of the Reich. Herr Hitler solely will control these "dictators," and will himself appoint the Prussian Premier and Cabinet. Dr. Heineken, chairman of the Norddeutscher Lloyd Shipping Company, has resigned.

CONTROL OF PRESS. NEW LAW TO BE PROMULGATED BERLIN, April 6, In announcing that a new Press law is to be promulgated shortly Herr Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, at the annual receptidn to the German Press, said it would regulate the new relationship between the Press and the State and define the professional standing and prerogatives of journalists. The Chancellor, Herr Hitler, declared that the highest duty of the Press at present was not criticism but the creation of unity of thought and will. PROTEST TO POLAND. PRESS ATTACKS ON HITLER. WARSAW, April 7. The German Minister to Poland called at the Foreign Office in Warsaw to-day and presented a Note protesting against attacks upon Herr Hitler in the Polish Press.

It is learned that the tone of the conversation was sharp and that the subject of the treatment of Polish nationals in Germany was raised. NAZI OUTRAGE. DEMAND FOR CULPRITS. BERLIN, April 7. i The Government of Liechtenstein has demanded that Austria shall extradite the assailants of the two brothers, Alfred and Fritz Rotter, Frau Alfred Rotter and Fran Wolf, three of whom were killed as the result of a Nazi outrage at Gaelei, which is beyond the German border. The culprits are mostly students under 30. They were found in possession of a poison syringe, seven phials of chloroform, and. gas pistole. They declare they used no revolvers, but made a tear gas attack from patriotic motives, hoping to get the party on to Austrian soil to facilitate their extradition to Germany. If they had succeeded,. they say; they would have received a reward of £3300.

"Life near the border is dangerous," says Herr Max Reihhardt, famous Jewish theatrical producer. He has decided to leave his castle at Salszburg and lire in Vienna.