EUROPE’S WAR DANGER

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 September 1933, Page 5

EUROPE’S WAR DANGER

GERMAN PREPARATONS

ARMS ACCUMULATED [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, September 3. The Powers have received information proving that Germany is secretly accumulating arms in all five of the categories that are forbidden by the Versailles Treaty. With the militarised police, her armed forces number 1,085,000. “Voluntary” labour corps, training as militia with other irregular forces, are divided into seven army corps, which are sub-divided into divisions, brigades, companies arid possess cavalry units, engineer companies; motor sections specially organised for sudden attacks, anti-tank and gas sections, all being commanded by Reichswehr officers. 'There are even railway guards armed. High speed planes, that are ostensibly civil planes, are convertible into bombers. Gas sprayers are being built in I}avaria, and nine hundred Nazi pilots are organised on military linens. Tanks are being produced at Breslau and Mannheim and poison gas manufactured at Dresden and Hamburg.

FRENCH INTIMATION

PARIS, September 4.

M. Paul Boncour (Foreign Secretary), unveiling a memorial to M. Briand at Trebeurden, in Brittany, declared that France was strong enough ,to resist any violence and face any threat coming from across the frontier. The Premier, M. Daladier’s quiet visit to the frontier defences was a suitable reply to outbreaks that were deeply disturbing the atmosphere of peace that was essential to the restoration of Europe.

AUSTRIA EXPECTANT.

LONDON, September 4.

The “Daily Mail’s” Vienna correspondent says: The expectation that the next ten days will see historic events in Austria is so general that a number of politicians and other prominent people have cancelled their holidays. Many are stated to have their bags packed and motors always' ready for instant flight. Frontier events are expected' to come to a head on the national holiday on September 12, the 250th anniversary of Vienna’s deliverance from the Turks. The Premier, Dr. Dolfuss’s health is suffering as the result of the political and economic strain, and the illness of his wife. The Austrian press is heavily censored. ), JEWISH BOYCOTT. (Received September 5, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, September 4.

“A lesson from the Nuremburg rally,” (says the Times’s Berlin correspondent), “is that training and organising of the Storm batalions will bo pursued unremittingly. Their discipline .and equipment have markedly improved since the Nazis attained power. Their potential military, value progressively increases. The Congress demonstrated that the Jewish policy will not be modified, but the worst of the campaign is apparently over, with the elimination of Jewish doctors, lawyers and other professionals, whose lot is tragic. Jewish shopkeepers are managing to carry on, and may survive the oppression.” The anti-Semitic speeches of Hitler and Goebbels at Nuremburg, were followed by an unofficial boycott of Jew-, ish shops. Pickets roughly handled would-be customers, and the authorities did not interfere. CONCENTRATION. CAMP HORRORS

(Received September 5, 1 p.m.) LONDON, September 4.

“If only the German people could see what I saw in that camp, they .surely would not suffer it to continue another week!,” writes Arnold Forster, technical adviser to the National Peace Council, describing a visit to the Bavarian concentration camp.

“I have reason to believe that fourteen j were killed in the camp, in horrible ways, and many were maltreated. It is like the Middle Ages. I was not allowed to see the prison quarters.- Mem and boys were imprisoned without trial or sentence. I cannot describe the expression of hopelessness in the’faces of that tragic company. The electrified barbed wire around the camp is a wire around all Germany now.”

A WOMAN VICTIM.

LONDON, September 4.

The “Times’s” Munich correspondent says: Fraulein Betti Suss, whom Storm Troopers dragged through streets in Nuremburg placarded, “I offered myself to a Jew,” has become mentally affected 'in consequence of ill treatment and has been sent tb an asylum.

LOAN INTEREST PAYMENTS.

RUGBY, September 3.

The trustees of the Austrian Govern-ment-guaranteed loan 1923-43 have stated that the Austrian Government has made provision for the payment of monthly instalments of interest which are overdue in connection with the 'service of the loan, and also for the reconstruction in full of the reserve fund on which the trustees, have had to draw. As announced some time ago, this loan was the first of the European reconstruction loans issued under the auspices of the League of Nations. “The Times” considers the trustees’ announcement is gratifying and is likely to improve Austria’s credit..