NAZI COMMAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 96, 26 April 1933, Page 7

NAZI COMMAND.

EXTENDING POWER. Banks and Barbers' Unions Now Under Control. RUSSIAN OFFICES RAIDED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, April 25. A Nazi decree orders a committee to examine the public libraries and cleanse them of "Marzlst, antinational, rubbishy literature," including works of famous Liberals .and pacifists, also books dealing with the Soviet, all of which will be publiqly burnt. A Cologne message states that in pursuance "of unification the Nazis have appointed a commission to administer the Rhineland and Westphalian Bankers' Association. Practically every organisation in the Rhineland, except religious bodies, is now dominated by Nazis, who have even seized . the hairdressers' organisation. The police raided the headquarters of the German-Russian Petroleum Company and arrested 20 German employees on charges of Communist activities. The Soviet Embassy has lodged a sharp protest. Previously the police raided the company's premises on April 1 when they arrested 13 employees. The police state that papers seized confirm their suspicions. Although the newspaper "Berliner Tageblatt" has passed out of Nazi control it sounds a note of alarm over the serious loss of outstanding intellectual personalities in the universities. The paper says: "It is true that applicants for the vacant professorships know their work, but will they possess the magic of strong individualities and so be able to inspire German youths to undertake scientific work?" The "Tageblatt" cites the names of many famous Jewish scientists and questions whether medicine, jurisprudence and other professions are really dominated by Jews.

GROWTH IN AUSTRIA.

NAZI STRENGTH INCREASES. (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. "The Times" Vienna correspondent reports that the growth of Nazi strength in Austria is strikingly reflected in the results of tho municipal elections at Innsbruck, the Nazis obtaining 14,996 votes and nine seats, compared with 1190 votes and no seats in 1930. The gains are chiefly at the expense of panGerman and Socialist candidates, though the latter remains the strongest party.