RAIDS ON NAZIS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20500, 19 March 1932, Page 15

RAIDS ON NAZIS.

HERR HITLER PROTESTS. CONFIDENT OF PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESS. (UNITED PH2 S3 ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH— COPYRIGHT.) (Received March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) MUNICH. March 18. Herr Adolf Hitler (Leader of the Nazis) vigorously protested against the tactics of Herr Karl Severing, the Prussian Minister for the Interior, m ordering a search of the Nazis who prepared the "putsch" on March 13th. Similar raids are being undertaken at Cologne and other towns, where many documents have been seized and forwarded to Berlin. The police declare that the raids have shown that the Nazis organised storm troops and planned and supplied transport and armaments for the operations lasting for weeks. Herr Hitler contends that tlie_ Nazis are the victims of. deliberate violence and terrorism from their opponents. Forty of his stonn troops were killed in the streets recently, and thousands assualted and wounded. Consequently, instructions were issued by the leaders during the Presidential election time ordering them to be prepared in anticipation of attacks. He adds: The Minister for the Interior of the Reich approved of the plans a week previously. Herr Severing's election manoeuvre will not save the Socialists from an inevitable defeat on April 24th. PLOT DISCOVERED. MARCH ON BERLIN PLANNED. (Received March 18th, 8.30 p-^n.), BERLIN, March 18. All the Hitlerite looal headquarters in Prussia were raided, also the homes of many leaders. The Nazi offices were searched for documents and arms. Herr Karl Severing, Minister for the interior, ordered the raids following the discovery of a plot that if Herr Hitler had been elected President on Sunday his private army would have marched on Berlin and seized power immediately on n signal, "Grandmother is dead, Max," issued at Munich, which would have set the fiitler force in motion. Proceedings are being taken against the Nazi military advisers for high treason. Tt is expected that the Government will issue a decree dissolving the so-called storm troops. A QUIET EASTER. POLITICAL TRUCE PROCLAIMED. (Received March 18th, 11 p.m.) BERLIN, March 18. President Hindcnburg has proclaimed a political truce during Easter in which public meetings, political demonstrations, political leaflets, and posters are prohibited.

MR BAVIN'S HEALTH. | CAUSE OF ANXIETY. . SYDNEY, March 18. Mr T. R. Bavin's health is causing his friends anxiety, and it is reported that ho may have to relinquish the State Opposition leadership. COMPANIES ACT. PROTECTION OF PREFERENCE SYDNJDY, March 18. The Legislative Assembly, after a long sitting, passed all stages of a Bill amending tho Companies Act, to protect preference shareholders by providing that ordinary shareholders "re not to dispose of a company's assets without the consent of the preference shareholders. # . Mr J. T. Lang (Premier) said the Bill would be retrospective to enable the shareholders of ''Smith's Weekly (who lie alleged had been badly treated in connexion with the sale or the "Daily Guardian") to institute legal proceedings for the recovery or their money. ARBITRATION BILL. LANG MINISTRY'S MEASURE EMASCULATED. SYDNEY, March 18. The Arbitration Amendment Bill) after being in the Upper House for 12 months, has been returned to the Legislative Assembly, accompanied by a message containing 109 amendments. It is understood that Cabinet will not accept the Bill as amended by the Council. Ministers say the Government's Bill has been emasculated. The Government was defeated in the Council when tho Large Estates Taxation Management Bill was referred to a Select Committee. BANK ROBBERS. THIEVES OBTAIN £IOO. (Received March 18th, 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Marclf 18. ■ Bank robbers entered tho branch of the Bank of New 1 South Wales at Muswollbrook to-day and threw pepper in the of Mr W. Murray, the" only officer present. They also hit him ,on the hfead with an ebony ruler, rendering him unconscious. The thieves stole at least £IOO, but a larger sum was overlooked.