BOMB OUTRAGES.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20620, 9 August 1932, Page 9

BOMB OUTRAGES.

DESTRUCTION IN GERMANY. A REICHSBANNER LEADER ASSASSINATED. (trmTBD PSIS9 ASSOCIATION —BT ELBCTHO TXUSGBAPU —COPTKIGHT.) (Received August Bth, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, August 8. The Berlin correspondent of tho "Daily Telegraph" says: "Undeterred by Herr Adolf Hitler's pledges or Herr von Papon's threats, Nazi ajid Oommunist dynamitards continue to work death and destruction. A bomb with devastating force exploded at Brunswick, damaging 25 houses, _ almost all the residences of Communists or Socialists. There have been three other bomb outrages in the city without any attempt to put into execution the Government's decree against terrorists, which includes the death penalty. The newspapers declaro that the delay is due to differenoes of opinion in the Government. Some members hold that the Hitlerites should be mado answerablo for their crimes like everyone else, licrr Hitler's newspapers urge the Government to outlaw all Communists and allow the Nazis to arm in selfdefence.''

Tho Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says tho week-end outrages culminated in the assassination of the Reichsbannor leader, lvotnan, at Lotzen, East Prussia.

[Somo interesting sidelights 011 party alignments and leaders in German, politics were given to members of the Legacy Club in Sydney recently by Professor S. H. Roberts, Chailis Professor of Modern History at Sydney University. Ho said the Nazis rose 011 the scum of discontent, which had paralysed so many sections of Germany. 110 described Hitler as n "shifty-eyed little Austrian," who had arisen out of the discontent. The Nazis had no clear programme; they opposed tho Versailles Treaty and foreigners, especially Jews; .were a direct result of the war disillusionment; and, as a party, were born from Spengler's system of philosophy and Professor Othmar Spann's economics, especially the theory of "Canalisation" in the field of monetary reform. They appealed to the lowest feelings of racial and religious bias. Their main strength was not in a positive programme, but because they included men of many parties who were disgusted with Germany's present situation. Hitler looked like an insignitican clerk, but obtained remarkable power by means of a sonorous vo ce and mob oratory. All peaceful Germans opposed liini, and the workers and Roman Catholics stood out against him. Many of his supporters at the moment were Socialists, and would oppose any Fascist steps ho might take. The most important element in Germany, Professor Roberts proceeded, was the Republican, or Reichsbanner. If constitutional methods were adhered to they were the strongest of ail, for they undoubtedly comprised a majority of tho electorate. They consisted of three sections —the > Roman Catholio Centrists, 1 the Socialists, and the Democrats—all of wnom stood for the sacredness of tho Republic. They wero called "tho Watch," because they stood on guard for the Republic, and included 800,000 ex-soldiers in their ranks. They wanted a friendly revision of the Versailles Treaty, and opposed the recent coup of Herr von Papen. One of their main elements of strength was the control they exercised over the strong Catholic trade unions of the Rhineland. Much deponded on the personality of the octogenarian President Hinaenburg. He was an avowed monarchist, and supported von Papen, although not Hitler. His significance was that he could veto all legislation of the Reich, and thus could decide the future of the country.]