HITLER PLAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 7

HITLER PLAY.

BANNED IN FRANCE.

Story of Rise to Power With | Love Episode. DESERTED BY FIANCEE. United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, May 24. As a sequel to a protest from the German Embassy the Minister of the Interior banned a play entitled "Hitler" in which the author, Paul Caillet, asserts that his intention was to show Herr Hitler that Frenchmen were not afraid of him. The play traces Herr Hitler's rise. Love interest is provided by Herr Hitler's reputed fiancee, who is represented as being a non-Aryan. She deserts him after a scene in which Herr Hitler shoots his former propaganda chief, Herr von Roehni, during his great "purge" of July 30, 1934. M. Caillet introduced into his play an idealised Frenchman who attempts to persuade Herr Hitler to maintain peace despite General Goering's urging that "we ought to have a nice little war with France." The curtain falls when the Frenchman cries: "You want war. You are going to have it, but you'll lose. Any Frenchman can fight half a dozen Germans"—whereupon Herr Hitler angrily telephones ordering the reoccupation of the Rliineland. The German Embassy resented a Hitler-Hindenburg interview in the play in which Herr Hitler, demanding the Chancellorship, says: "God has entrusted me with a mission to restore Germany." President von Hindenburg retorts: "You have excellent connections." GERMANS CRITICISED. English Workers and Olympic Participation.

JEW SECONDS BAN MOTION. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 24. Contending that the Berlin Olympiad did not advance the Olympic spirit, Mr. G. H. Elvin, on behalf of the National Workers' Sports Organisation, proposed at a meeting of the Amateur Athletic Association that the association withdraw its support. He added that Herr Hitler had closed down stadiums and playing fields belonging to a German workers' organisation numbering 2,000,000 members, and had confiscated their funds. A Jewish delegate seconded this motion. An ex-Olympic champion, Mr. D. G. Lowe, said the British athletic governing bodies, also 180 prospective competitors favoured participation. There was no evidence that the games were not to be properly conducted. Moreover, over 50 nations and 5500 athletes were competing. Other speakers criticised the Nazi regime, but the motion was rejected by 200 votes to 8.

NAZI PLOT SCOTCHED. Attempt to Capture Heimwehr Arms in Austria. STARHEMBERG CASTLE CLASH. VIENNA, May 24. One Nazi was killed and several others were injured, one fatally, in a raid at Prince von Starhemberg's castle at Wachsberg. The police had been forewarned of the plot and arrived simultaneously with the Nazis. A fierce fight ensued.. The motive of the Nazis apparently was to capture a quantity of Heimwehr arms stored in the castle. Prince von Starhemberg was not present at the time. The attack on the castle has aroused fears of renewed Nazi violence. The police in Upper Austria have been ordered to remain permanently on alarm duty to prevent trouble arising from the incident or Heimwehr demonstrations. Armed guards have been stationed at Prince von Starhemberg's 12 other castles in Upper Austria. So far 28 arrests have been made in connection with the affray at Waehsberg, in which the police state 40 to t>o Nazis attacked with revolver fire. The police replied with rifles. The fighting lasted for 15 minutes in darkness. The ringleader of the Nazis and the others escaped to Czechoslovakia. It is believed that several of the raiders were former members of Prince von Starhemberg's bodygaurd, one of whom revealed the plot.