CIVIL WAR SOON.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20789, 24 February 1933, Page 11

CIVIL WAR SOON.

GERMAN PREDICTION. COUNTRY SEETHING WITH HATRED. FREEDOM DISAPPEARING. H>MITB» PBEB3 ASSOCIATION—BT BLBCTIiO TSUSOBAJH— COJVKIOHT. 1 (Received February 23, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, February &2. The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says the whole of tiermany is apprehensive and seething with anger and hatred. Things nave reached such a pass that the newspaper "Germania" warns the Government that if it cannot restrain its followers, civil war must result soon. The newspaper adds significantly: "There i 6 not much time to lose." The Government is aiming blow after blow at the nation's liberties, freedom of speech is dead. Freedom or the press has largely disappeared. Catholic newspapers were to-day suspended for merely appealing to the Commissar of Prussia to protect Catholics against Nassi storm troops. Tl>e Government denies the report that the Nazis will march on Berlin on the night of March 5, and hold;the crty while President von Hindenburg is evicted and replaced by the Crown Prince. [The newspaper "Germania," a Catholic Centre party organ, was recently suppressed, but was to resume publication after one day. This Jed to the belief that Hitler was not confident enough of his strength to break with the Centre party, but the next day he strongly attacked that party, and Nazis attacked a Catholic procession .] HITLER'S REPRESSIVE POLICY. OPPOSITION AROUSED. BERLIN, February 22. Police raided the Catholic Party's printing works at Glndbach and confiscated 30,000 pamphlets, on tho ground that they violated tho Government's press decree. Forty thousand Communist pamphlets were seized at Kiel and Munich. With a veiled reference to Hitler 'e unsuccessful putsch in 1923, the Bavarian Minister-President, . Dr. Held, promised to resist new attempts to ride roughshod over Bavaria. Herr von Lex, leader of the Bavarian Guard, declared that if after the elections, the violation of Bavaria's rights was attempted, they would unfold the old Bavarian colours and fight, perhaps die, for freedom and justice.