FIRST SIGNS OF NAZI UNREST?

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 210, 6 September 1939, Page 10

FIRST SIGNS OF NAZI UNREST?

WAR RESENTED

Serious Disorders Are

Reported In Germany

MACHINE GUNS MOUNTED

(United Press Association.—Copyright.—Bee. H) a.m.*)

LONDON, September 5.

A message from Paris reports that a French radio agency announces serious disorders in the Cologne, Dusseldorf and ELssen regions of Germany, while Zurich dispatches report disorders in Moravia and Bohemia.

The dispatches add that heavy detachments left Dresden and Leipzig for Bohemia and Moravia, where they occupied public buildings and set up machine-guns. The principal disturbances occurred at Brno, Prague and Pilsen, and at concentration camps of Czech refugees from Slovakia.

The pamphlets dropped from the British aeroplanes on die night of Sunday-Monday bore the title: "A Warning—Great Britain to the German People." It declared the German Government had imposed an unnecessary w~r upon Britain, which wanted to live in peace with the German people. The Nazi censorship withheld the truth from Germans. They were living on the verge of bankruptcy. The pamphlet added that Britain and her Allies were invincible, but would be prepared to make peace with any sincerely peaceful German Government.

A British official wireless message says that on the night of Monday-Tuesday a further extensive reconnaissance was carried out by Royal Air Force 'planes over the Ruhr district. Over 3,000,000 copies of a Note to the German people were dropped.

The aircraft were not engaged by enemy fighters, and, as on a previous occasion, all returned safely.

Last night further extensive reconnaisance was carried out by the Royal Air Force over Germany, says a radio announcement, and more than 3,000,000 copies of a pamphlet to the German people were dropped. The aircraft were not engaged by enemy aircraft and all returned safely to their bases.

German reports continue to state that no damage was caused by the raids on the German naval bases of Wilhelmshaven and Brunsbuttel, but it is learned that two German battleships suffered extensively from direct hits by bombs.

The German workers and peasants do not want war. They have nothing in. common with the Nazi regime," declare the Independent Socialists of Germany in a message to the British Independent Labour party. "Hitler began the war against Poland against the wishes of large masses of the population. This is not our war. We ask you in the midst of death and destruction not to forget the .deals for whieh we died under torture and foj which we suffered in concentration camp,. We protested in our lw spread even among fortification workers watched of ell C ? cs apo ' a ß am ® t occupation of Austria, the annexation of Czechoslovakia and against Hitler's policy of aggression.**