HITLER’S BIRTHDAY

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 April 1938, Page 7

HITLER’S BIRTHDAY

GERMAN CELEBRATION POLISH WORKERS' PROTEST [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received April 20, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The celebration of Hitler’s forty- ' ninth birthday began with a special ■ broadcast throughout Germany. “The Times’s” Prague correspond- • ent says: Workmen smashed; a window of the house of the- counsellor of the German Legation, as* a protest against the display of the swastika flag in commemoration of Hitler’s birthday. Seven were arrested. An official apologised to the Legation, and promised the punishment of the offenders. BARON MISSING. (Recd. April 20, 2 p.m.) LONDON, April 19. The “Telegraph’s” Vienna correspondent says: One of the many unsolved mysteries of the recent troubled weeks, is the disappearance of Baron Wilhelm von Ketteler, Honorary Attache to the German Legation in Vienna, and private secretary to von Papen. He was last seen alive at midnight on March 13. He is now officially described as missing. There is reason to believe that he was shot by a Nazi execution squad. He is known to have had personal enemies in Nazi circles. CRUELTY TO JEWS. (Received April 20, 1 p.m.) PRAGUE, April 19. Hearing cries from a mid-river breakwater on the Danube, citizens of Theben found! an aged! rabbi and fifty-one Austrian Jews of all ages and both sexes, who disclosed that Storm Troopers had expelled them from Austria, despite long-standing citizenship, and dumped them withotit food or oVercoatS' on the breakwater. The Czechs fed! and housed them, but the authorities declined ,to harbour them for which reason they were pushed across the Hungarian frontier, only to be refused refuge. They are thus homeless, as, the . Nazis will not allow them to'return to Austria. ’

HIMALAYA’S EXPEDITION. LONDON, April 19The . “Telegraph’s”’ Berlin correspondent says: An expedition, which, judging by its composition, is intended to combine politics with science, will go to India from Genoa on April 21, to explore “the still almost unknown areas of Eastern Himalayas and the southern watercourses of Tibet.” The leader is Dr. Ernst Schoessler, group leader of the Black Guards, the second in command being Dr. Karl Wienert, under-group leader. The assistants consist of an anthropologist, geographist, and entomologist. The expedition is expected to last two years.