NAZI SUPREMACY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1933, Page 7

NAZI SUPREMACY

ALL GERMANY COWED ORGY OF BRUTALITY [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—-COPYRIGHT.] BERLIN, March 10. The Nazis have now seized power n such States as were not already

under their control. Thus Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemburg and Saxony, the four greatest States after Prussia have been dominated by a stroke of the pen. Only the control of the Reichwein* there is lacking to make Germany completely a Hitlerite State. By mid-night the Nazis were masters of Munich. Storm Troops occupied the Bavarian Parliament after resistance by the Bavarian police, who for long tried to prevent the hoisting of the Swastika. The excitement in the city abated at a late hour. Troops paraded the streets, followed by crowds. A great Nazi victory celebration was held in the Odeonsplatz. General Von Epp, new Bavarian Commissioner. declared that they had come to ensure the maintenance of law and order, and he asked for the people’s support. The scene was illuminated by searchlights and torches. Continual outrages by Nazis have caused the authorities to call a halt on irresponsible outbursts, and to restore normality, although it is doubtful when discipline can be re-imposed. To-day’s shootings and raidings in the State of Brunswick included the murder of a trades unionist whose premises were seized, and the murder of a publisher of a Socialist newspaper at Chemnitz.

While the police looked on, the Nazis at Chemnitz arrested judges and high officials. Nazis also insultingly harangued the Mayor of Coblenz. Nazis maltreated Madgeburg hotel guests and smashed the furniture Nazis also attacked the Peruvian Consul at Bremen. Nazis at Berlin broke into a trade union building and wrecked the offices.

Reports from everywhere have been received that the Nazis are torturing Communists, forcing them to swallow castor oil, and thrashing them with steel rods, aftei* which they are taken to the prison infirmaries. Herr Frick, Minister of the Interior, at a Nazi meeting, declared that the Communist Deputies will not be allowed to attend the Reichstag, but will be interned in concentration camps, where they will do more useful work than in Parliament.

SAFETY OF JEWS

(Rec. March 11, 10.30 a.m.)

BERLIN, March 10.

General Goering assured the Jewish Citizens’ Union that the safety of the lives and property of loyal Jews was legally guaranteed. Nevertheless, the Nazis closed several Jewish shops at Magdeburg, and allegedly maltreated employees and customers, causing women and children to be trampled down.

PRESS SUSPENSION.

BERLIN, March 10.

The “Berliner Tageblatt” has been suspended until March 13, without explanation.

FRONTIER INCIDENT.

PARIS, March 10.

Captain Offermann, who is in charge of the Customs House at the Kahl Bridge, and 500 Storm Troops have occupied a station and also disused barracks on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Strasburg, and they hoisted the “Swastika” the Nazi emblem.. This incident is regarded as serious, because Kahl is within the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland. The French bridge guard has been reinforced.

GERMAN EXPLANATION.

BERLIN, March 10.

It is officially stated that the barracks opposite Strasbourg were temporarily occupied by Storm Troops from the country, while the Kehl Storm Troops were participating in events nt Karlsruhe. On their return to Kohl, the barracks were vacated. No violation of the Treaty was intended. The barracks were not occupied by military forces.

CRISIS IN VIENNA.

VIENNA, March 10.

Confusion reigns here. The entire garrison has been ordered to stand to in readiness for emergencies.

MERGER CAMPAIGN.

(Recd. March 11, Noon.) VIENNA, March 10.

Edward Frauenfeld, the Nazi leader, states that but. for the strength of the Nazis, Austria would have experienced a Heimwehr Putsch. The Nazis would resort to illegal means for recognition, only if legal failed. He added: “We demand full anschluss with Germany. We wish to become again Germany’s eastern borderland, perhaps with local autonomy. Austria can no longer stand alone with its foreign policy dictated by another nation. We must take French and Czccho-Slovakian annoyance for granted, but we intend to remove their influence.”

One Vienna newspaper declared that if six million Bavarian Catholics cannot prevail against the Nazis, what hope is there for a million Austrians.

TXDIANS ARRESTED.

RUGBY, March 10.

Replying to a question in the Commons, Mr Baldwin said attention had been drawn to the arrest of two British Indians, Naida and Nambian, in Germany. The British Ambassador was in communication with competent German authorities. It was learnt unofficially that Naida had been released.