NAZI TERRORISM

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 March 1933, Page 7

NAZI TERRORISM

OPPOSITION CRUSHED MURDER NO CRIME [TIMES cables.] BERLIN, March 9. Government circles claim that what is tantamount to a revolution in Germany has passed off with remarkably little unpleasant incident. ' Though the Nazis are entitled to point to an absence of large-scale violence, local incidents of violence and intimidation are still occurring. Workmen are being killed in houses and streets by unknown assailants. Communist prisoners have been shot while, it is stated, they were trying to escape. Individuals have been dragged from their beds by uniformed men and they have simply disappeared. Helpless people are being roughly treated in raids. Prominent Jews receive threatening letters, and distinguished persons, who are credited with “left” sympathies find that an indefinite absence from home is advisable. In the aggregate, these incidents are beginning to assume impressive proportions, and are causing the newspapers to urge that the Government shall enforce discipline and so gain a mastery over its own mass follow ing.

Herr Goering has allotted Liebknecht House (formerly the Communist headquarters) as the headquarters for the Storm Troops, whose Berlin leader Count Helldorf, has declared that for every Storm Trooper killed in Berlin or in Brandenburg, three Communists will answer with their lives.

Herr Goering has issued a statement declaring that the men who man-hand-led three American citizens, including two Jews, were not Hitlerites, but were agents—provacteurs disguised in the Hitlerite uniform.

The Nazis declare that the maltreatment of foreigners is due to Communist spies and provacteurs wearing Storm Troop uniforms, and seeking to discredit the Nazis abroad. Three were killed and six wounded when Storm Troops occupied the Trade Union headquarters at Breslau.

The Nazis have closed the multiple “one-piece” and other stores in the Ruhl* on the ground that they are Jewish controlled stores and that they threaten ruin to the small German traders.

The school children were given a holiday to celebrate Chancellor Hitler’s victory. The children donned brown shirts, and marched through the streets shouting, “Wake up Germany!” and singing Nazi songs. They wildly cheered Herr Hitler, . who watched a mile long procession in the Wilhelmstrasse.

BAVARIAN GOVT. EJECTED.

(Received March 10, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, March 9.

Fifteen Storm-troopers marched to

the Bourse and demanded that the Board of Control should immediately The' Board unanimously refused,, declaring that it would only accept the orders of the supreme authorities. Alost shares subsequently fell. At Munich, Captain Koehm, Hitler’s Chief of Staff, escorted by Storm troops, presented the Bavarian Premier, Herr Held, with an ultimatum demanding the appointment of a State Commissioner. Cabinet was hastily assembled. Aleantime, the Nazi General, Von Epp, arrived in an aeroplane from Berlin, with an order in his pocket appointing him as Commissioner. Cheering Storm troopers welcomed him at the Aerodrome. Cabinet, fearing a demonstration, resigned, leaving Von Epp in control, pending a new Government, wherein the Nazis will predominate. RUSH TO BRITAIN. (Recd. Alarch 10, 1 p.m.) LONDON, March 9. In the Commons, Air. Doran asked if the Home Secretary would prevent alien Jews entering the country from Germany. Sir A. Gilmour said it was not within the law to discriminate against aliens on the grounds of religious belief and racial origin. The Aliens’ Act gave adequate powers to protect the country against an undesirable influx of aliens. Each case was considered on its merits. Air. Doran: Hundreds of thousands of Jews are scurrying from Germany to Britain. A carriage and pair could be driven through the Aliens’ Act. Air Buchanan: Will you undertake that whatever restrictions are applied to aliens, the Jews will not be singled out for aggressive treatment? Sir A. Gilmour: Certainly. There will be no differentiation. Air Doran: Is it the policy of this country to allow the entrance of aliens from every country, when we have 3,000,000 unemployed. If you are asking to Hitler in this country we will soon get him (laughter). There was no reply. MUSSOLINI’S CONGRATULATIONS BERLIN, Alarch 8. Chancellor Hitlei* has received the Italian Ambassador, Signor Cerutti, conveying Signor Alussolini’s personal congratulations on the success of the Nazis. POLAND AND DANZIG. GENEVA, March 9. The High Commissioner of Danzig has requested the League to intervene in the Polish-Danzig situation. Being apprehensive of German intentions, Poland has strengthened the Danzig harbour garrison near Poland’s ammunition depot. Danzig Senate declares that this violates the Polish-Danzig treaty. AUSTRIA’S ALARM. (Recd. March 10, 10 a.m.) VIENNA, March 9. Parliament has suspended Chancellor Dollfuss, and issued decrees for a state of emergency under which parades and mass meetings are forbidden and the freedom of the press is restricted. The decrees are directed against the Nazis. It is estimated that the German Hitlerites have already sent nearly 200,000 professional propagandists to Austria.