OMINOUS INCIDENT

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 61, 5 December 1930, Page 11

OMINOUS INCIDENT

Germany and Poland

FRONTIER AGITATION Nazi Troops Arrested WAR MATERIALS SEIZED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec, December 4, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 4. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” reports an ominous incident as a result o! a Nationalist-Nazi agitation for the revision of the GermanPolish frontier. News from Breslau states that the police rounded up 350 armed and uniformed Nazi's at the manor house of Von Oelffen, a prominent supporter of the Kapp “putsch.” Armse and ammunition were seized and Von Oelffen was arrested. The mobilisation of Nazi storm troops so near the border is interpreted as meaning that raids are Intended. f

The Nazis are the Fascist followers of Herr Adolf Hitler, who have allied themselves with the German Nationalists m advocating action against Poland. On November 27 the German Cabinet dispatched a 25-page protest to the League of Nations against the terrorism of Germans in Polish Silesia, especially at the week-end elections, when many were maltreated. „ . ' ... The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Reichstag has rejected a Nationalist motion advocating the raising of an army of 100.000 unemployed to protect Germany against Poland;, also urging Germany’s withdrawal 'rom the League of Nations, but has agreed to a demand for the recall of German representatives from the Preparatory Disarmament Conference because the other Powers were not fulfilling their obligatidns. . The Kapp “Putsch" took place m 1920, and was one of several counter-revolution-ary movements of the disturbed period through which Germany passed at that time. In March of that year the Kapps “Putsch” caused the disruption of the Ebert Government, which fled from Berlin. Dr. Kapp assumed\ the office of Imperial Chancellor, but failed to form a Government. The revolution then ended.