NAZI “DEFENCE”

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 9

NAZI “DEFENCE”

NEW LAWS AGAINST EXILES. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] BERLIN, July 15. Inaugurating a new method of defending Nazi Germany against the attacks from her enemies abroad, five relatives of Schiedeman, the exiled Socialist ex-Chancellor, have been arrested and sent to a concentration camp as a warning to the “slanderers.” Schiedeman is accused of trying to start a new atrocicty campaign by the articles lie has published in America. The Cabinet has passed laws directed against Schiedeman and other exiles, decreeing that the enemies of the State living abroad may forfeit their property, and also may lose the German citizenship if they refuse to return to Germany when summoned. It is provided that naturalised Germans may have their nationality revoked if this is deemed advisable. The laws decree that the formation of new parties is treason. Handshaking in Germany is banned, Hitlerite orders prescribing the Nazi salute, by raising the right arm, for all. DUELS FOR POLICE CHIEF. BERLIN, July 15. Ludwig Diels, who, as the Chief of the Prussian Political Police, is responsible for the arrest and detention in the concentration camps of 18,000 enemies of the Nazi regime, was challenged to a mortal duel with pistols by one prisoner, by six others with sabres, and by eleven with rapiers, under the recently-relaxed ban on duelling. Diels has accepted all of the challenges. He will fight them immediately his opponents are released.

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF DECREES (Recd. July 17, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, July 16. A decree has been promulgated empowering the cancellation o£ the German citizenship granted to foreigners between 1918 and 1933. It is believed that the Government is aiming at the purging of all undesirable elements within the Reich, and filling their places with unemployed. Another decree prohibits the use of machines in the cigar-making industry. Also, with a view to relieving unemployment, Nazies have undertaken control of the Jewish department store of Herman Tietz, employing fifteen thousand throughout the country. It is officially announced that three Communists were shot dead while en route to a concentration. ANTI-NAZI PRESS. AMSTERDAM, July 15. An anti-Fascist and anti-Hitlerite paper, the “Weekly Freie Preisse,” is being printed here in German. It will state to-morrow that its editor and staff are ex-members of German left wing parties, and that its contributors will include Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, and Leon Feuchtwanger.

JEWISH BOYCOTT. LONDON, July 16. Samuel Untermyer, a lawyer of America, will attend the Jewish economic Conference at Amsterdam. The intention is to institute a world-wide boycott of German goods, as a protest against the Nazi regime. Lord Melchett will actively participate in the campaign. STORM TROOPERS KILLED. (Recd. July 17, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 16. A Gleiwitz message states that a lorry full of Storm Troopers, crashed into a telegraph pole, which fell on the vehicle, and killed four and injured 13. The driver of the lorry committed suicide, shooting himself with a revolver. AERIAL PROPAGANDA. (Received July 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July IG. A message from Salzburg states that a Nazi aeroplane, apparently from Munich, whence the Austrian Nazi leader, Baron Von Hollenstedt, subsequently broadcast a description of the Dollfuss regime as terrorism, lying' undeir Franco>-Spanish' patronage, dropped thousands of leaflets calling on the populace to revolt against the Austrian Government. The latter promises a dramatic protest and declares that future propaganda aeroplanes will meet with armed resistance.