NEW GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 230, 29 September 1933, Page 7

NEW GERMANY.

NAZI AMBITIONS.

"SEANCE" AT GENEVA.

Minister's Plausible Defence of

Hitler Regime.

PART IN WORLD PEACE,

(United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 1.30 p.m.) GENEVA, September 28. The Australian Press Association Bays that, fulfilling his job as Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels held a "seance" this afternoon which caused greater excitement than the proceedings of all the commissions together.

Fully 200 journalists, representing the Press of the world, accepted invitations to the distant hotel where the Germans are staying. Their cards of entry w ere closely scrutinised by hefty members of the bodyguard lining the hotel entrance.

There was a tense silence when Dr. Goebbels rose to read an address on National Socialist Germany and her contribution to world peace. He read the address quietly, but occasionally with the ringing tones and flashing eyes of a fanatic. He made such a quiet, moderate and plausible defence of the new Germany that one wondered whether all the stories of cruelties and ill-treatment were a dream.

Dr. Goebbels said the concentration camps were only used to convert antisocial leaders into useful citizens. The camps were open to foreigners for inspection.

It was unjust and short-sighted to infer that Germany desired war. More than any other nation Germany wanted peace for -the solution of the economic crisis. Discussing foreign anxiety for the Jews, Dr. Goebbels said that they had become absolute masters of the German Press, literature, theatre, cinema, and medical and legal professions, and the Stock Exchange. They were the rulers of Parliament and the parties.

This excess of Jewish influence had been dealt with by legal and human methods. The Government had acted in Europe's best interests, erecting a solid, wall against anarchy, chaos and Bolshevism.

IN CONFLICT.

Mass of Evidence at Leipzig Fire Trial. PRISON CAMP TERRORS. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LEIPZIG, September 28. A mass of conflicting evidence regarding the relations of the Dutch Communist, Van der Lubbe, and three alleged Communists was the chief feature of the Reichstag fire trial to-day. Zachow, one of the three, stoutly denied that he was a Communist. He wept bitterly in Court and was manifestly cowed, terror-stricken and nerve shattered as the result of his experiences in a concentration camp. Under cross-examination he admitted using uncomplimentary language about a Storm Trooper, who kicked a Communist. Turning to the president he said: "I am sorry Mr. Councillor, I ought not to have done such a thing."

He implored the president to release hira from the camp. "I have been punished enough," he said.

GOERING DEFIED.

AXE NOT USED AT EXECUTION.

(Received 1 p.m.) BERLIN, September 28. Disregarding General Goering's order that the axe must be used at all executions, the guillotine was employed at Leipzig's first execution for 15 years. The prison governor was in gala uniform, while the town councillors were similarly robed. The lawyers for the prosecution and the defence witnessed the guillotining of the murderer.

HEIMWEHR DECIDES.

Austrians Hand Over Control to i Dollfuss. SOCIALISTS' THREAT. (Received 1.30 p.m.) VIENNA, September 28. A conference of Heimweh'r leaders resolved to v transfer the whole of the Organisation to the Chancellor's "Fatherland Front" in view of the fact that Dr. Dollfuss is abandoning the party politics system of Parliamentary democracy, rendering the movement superfluous. The Socialists, who have ruled in Vienna for 12 years, threaten a general strike if the Government occupies the City Hall and places a commissar in charge, or dissolves the Socialist party, outlaws the trade unions or proclaims a Fascist constitution.