STEEL HELMET PARADE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 5 September 1932, Page 5

STEEL HELMET PARADE

GERMAN PARTV ASSEMBLY TIME FOR SOLDIER HAS COME. DECLARATION BY LEADER. TREATY ABOLITION URGED (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegrapo Copyright.) BERLIN, Sept. 3. Members of the Reich and Prussian Governments. attended the Steel met party’s annual meeting, 15,000 Steel Helmet supporters cheering the announcement of the organiser (Major Stefani>: “This is the iirst time fo--13 years that the Reich and. Prussian Governments have been officially represented at our convention.” ExCrown Prince Wilhelm and many wartime generals were also present. Herr Seldte, the party's leader, declared that the rule of inferior spirits had been broken and the time for the soldier had come. The next step would bet the reintroduetion of compulsorv military service. , He also urged the abolition of the Versailles Treaty and the Weimar constitution.

EQUALITY IN ARMAMENTS. „ PROBLEM FOR CONFERENCE. MAY APPLY BOYCOTT THREAT LONDON, Sept. 4. France, Belgium and Italy have received copies of Germany’s aide memoir®. demanding arms equality—the right to the possession of arms permitted to other nations but denied to Germany under the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty. The Government of France has acknowledged the document and thei British will consider it shortly. Germany next week may apply its threat to boycott the Disarmament Conference. The French Cabinet has fully examined the question amt has decided on formal acknowledgement. In the meantime France is consulting the signatories to the recently initiated European consultative 'pact, under which the Governments concerned are pledged to keep one another informed on matters affecting mutual interests and to exchange views thereon with candour. These: consultations probably will occupy time because the. Ministers of various countries are. on holiday <>r otherwise engaged. Signor Mussolini recevied the aide memoir© from the German Ambassador at Rome, with whom ho had a lopg conversation. The British Cabinet \yill fullv review the matter on the return of the Foreign Minister (Sir John Simon) from Balmoral, where lie is visiting the King. It is understood Germany will not send a representative to the meeting of the budget committee of the Disarmament Conference on September 12. This would be the first practical application of Germany’s threat to boycott the conference unless the equality demand, is granted. Mr. -J. L. Garvin in the Observer says: “The Treaty of Versailles did not envisage Germany held in everlasting subjection. It set forth among other pirns a general limitation of the arms of all nations, yet after 13 years of peace the armament of non-German Europe is far heavier than in 1914. Between now and the resumption of the Disarmament Conference the world will- want to know whether there is any prospect of relief from the burden or whether the mural obligation of the Versailles Treaty is taken seriously by politicians, or whether the politicians are so infatuated as to imagine a nation like Germany can ibe kept under a perpetual stigma of inferiority.”

NEW EMERGENCY DECREED DOUBLING' OF TARIFFS BERLIN, Sept. 2. New emergency decrees to be published next week include high tariffs, in some cases double the existing rates, on goods competing with German manufactures. American importers will be most severely hit and may be forced to close down. ’ They have already protested to Washington, urging the Government to make representations on the subject.