CATHOLIC PARTY AND NAZIS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20898, 4 July 1933, Page 9

CATHOLIC PARTY AND NAZIS.

♦ DECISION TO DISSOLVE. IN REST RENEWED IN BRUNSWICK. ■r;:iiT[) ci:::-* assuci.vi ion my r.i.Ki-rith <■' >rv;i Hi in - Tn.r.cH.wii.i - BERLIN. July The Catholic Centre party has decided to dissolve and patiently await Hcrr Hitler's conditions of official dissolution. The Christian Social People's party has also voluntarily dissolved. The chief anxiety of the Centre party relates to the fate of its large number of Reichstag Deputies who wish admission to the Nazi ranks, but who arc hardly likely to be accepted. There is renewed unrest among the working classes in Brunswick, where an intensive anti-Communist drive resulted in a Nazi storm trooper being killed on June 29. The Nazis on Saturday night were commemorating their dead comrade on the spot where he was shot, when they were fired on from a neighbouring garden. The police have now been ordered ruthlessly to shoot with their revolvers distributors of Marxist pamphlets. VATICAN ATTITUDE. REPORT OF CONCORDAT. VATICAN CITY, July 2. It is understood that his Eminence Cardinal Pacelli (Secretary of State of the Holy See) and Herr von Papen have reached a concordat in principle between the Vatican City and Germany, linking the existing Vatican agreements with Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden. It is presumed that Herr Hitler will give adequate assurances concerning Catholic education. The Pope is expected to agree to the dissolution of the Centre party, subject to guarantees.

PARTLY CONCLUDED. I'OI'E TO RECEIVE II Eli It VON I'APEN. LONDON. July 2. A British United Press message from the Vatican City says a con--1 cordat with Herr Hitler's Government has been virtually concluded. It consists of 32 points, 27 whereof are understood to be already initialled. His Holiness the Pope will receive Herr Franz von Papen (ViceChancellor) after the concordat has been initialled, probably on Monday. AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. MEDIATION OF Ml SSOI.INT. VIENNA. July 2. The newspaper "Achturblatt" states that Signor Mussolini is attempting a reconciliation between Herr Adolf Hitler and Dr. E. Dollfuss (Austrian Chancellor). It is intended that it should coincide with the signing of the Four-Power Pact at Rome, when the two are expected to meet and bury the hatchet, and inaugurate the close co-operation of Austria and Hungary under German and Italian protection. PIRACY INCIDENT. * ARRESTS AT SHANGHAI. (Received July 3, 7 p.m.) SHANGHAI, July 2. The remaining two men concerned in the Shenghan tragedy have been arrested. All five men formerly held good positions in Shanghai. The affair has shocked the foreign section, and the Chinese newspapers declare that their nationals are not the only bandits in this part of the world. [While the Chinese steamer Shenghan was on its way from Tientsin to Shanghai the Russian master of the ship, Captain Vikman, his wife, the Russian mate, and seven Chinese members of the crew were murdered by five Europeans, who had stowed away on the vessel. They took charge of the Shenghan, but by bad navigation put her ashore. The Japanese police arrested Captain Taudin and two German compatriots named Schuler and Beeton. The other two, Gauch, a Swiss, and Muller, a German, escaped.! OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. (Received July 3. 7 p.m.) DARIEN. July 3. . Official dispatches confirm the vernacular cable messages to the effect that five Germans pirated a Chinese steamer between Tangku and Shanghai, killing twelve persons, including the captain and officers. They were planning to proceed to America, but stranded the steamer close to Darien.