GERMAN HAPPENINGS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 August 1933, Page 2

GERMAN HAPPENINGS

COMMUNIST PRINTING PRESSES [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. August 17, 11.30 a.m.). BERLIN, August 16. Communists are still desperately combating Hitlerism, printing and distributing anti-government pamphlets, despite the vigilance of the secret police. Printing presses are installed in the unlikeliest places. A modern machine producing a thousand pamphlets daily, was unearthed in a cave in the Koenigstein forest thirty feet underground. The police arrested eighteen leaders of the Communist information service, and interned thirty-three others on charges of treason.

CHANCELLOR’S ESCAPE.

MUNICH, August 15

Chancellor Hitler escaped injury while he was motoring on the AustroBavarian frontier, when an accident bcfel a car that was travelling behind his, and containing Adjutant Bruechner, who was hurled to the road, breaking his arm in several places, fracturing his skull, and gravely injuring him internally.

Herr Hitler’s sister and niece were also injured.

REFUGEES INFLUX.

(Recd. August 17. 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 16.

, u The Times’s” Paris correspondent says: The Metz. Colmar and Strassburg Chambers of Commerce have protested to the Government against the influx of German refugees in the eastern departments totalling 40,000, ■whose competition threatens local traders, and floods the labour market. The position is becoming worse daily.

SHIPPING REGULATIONS

BERLIN, August 16

It is intimated that the shipping order of August 11 may be modified. It is explained its object is not to prejudice foreign lines, but to ensure compliance with German exchange regulations.

Meantime, the reports in reference to goods in foreign ships on August 15 and yesterday are semi-oflicially denied.

BERLIN, August 16.

The Ministry of Economics is now allowing foreign shipping companies to transfer the full amount of passage money paid, if it is in foreign currency. It is also considering furrther measures to safeguard the interests of foreign shipping compatible with the German currency position.

ANTI-AUSTRIAN BROADCAST

BERLIN, August 16.

Habicht, re-attacking Austria in a wireless broadcast, said that nobody made a suggestion to raise her from the condition of hunger and beggary. The League looked on while Austria enjoyed fewer rights than a negro tribe. The Nazis would struggle until victory was attained.