RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 21 February 1933, Page 5

RUTHLESS SUPPRESSION

BODIES HOSTILE TO STATE DRASTIC ORDERS IN GERMANY USE OF WEAPONS BY POLICE. PROMISE OF PROTECTION. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) ' Received 11.20 a.m.. to-dav. BERLIN, Feb. 20, Herr Goering sensationally has instructed the police that the activities of organisations hostile to the State must be rigorously opposed. Communist acts of terrorism must be repelled with the utmost severity, says the order, and if necessory weapons must be used ruthlessly. “Policemen using revolvers and guns m the exrcise of their duties will be protected by me regardless of the consequences of their shooting,” he continues. “Contrawise the police must avoid any suggestion of hostility to nationalist organisations like the storm troops and stahThelms which contain the best elements of the State.”

GOING TO HOLD POWER. REITERATION BY NAZIS. BERLIN, Feb. 19. Cine hundred thousand (Rhineland Nazis welcomed Herr Adolf Hitler at Cologne, where there were scenes of hectic excitement. It was noteworthy that many police were wearing swastikas on their arms. Addressing a huge meeting. Herr Hitler intimated that failing a majority at the elections he intended to govern with a minority. The speecli included a bitter attack on the Catholic Party, Herr Hitler saying he not only criticised its politics but also doubted its Christianity.

Herr Goebels, a Hitlerite, speaking at Essen, said: “We are not going to give up power. Whoever opposes us will be smashed to pieces.” Herr Bolt, Premier of Wurtemburg. expressed fears that the present policy of the German Government would have as its natural sequel civil war. The ban has been withdrawn from the newspaper “Germania” after one issue had been affected. Other Catholic newspapers in the .‘Rhenish and Westphalian provinces of Prussia (where the Centre Party is strongest) which were also banned, have been similarly reinstated. This is believed to indicate that the Government does not feel strong enough to dispense with Catholic support. A meeting of the Free Speech Congress attended by many famous authors and scientists, including Herr Feuchtwangler, Mr. Thomas Mann and Mr. Arnold Zeeig, was dissolved by the polio® Professor Einstein is a leading member of the congress. Under the slogan “Rather .Death than Slavery,” 80,000 Republicans, Liberals and" Socials demonstrated in the Lusgarten carrying banners and Republican Army colours. Speakers emphasised that the “Vorwaerts” and 28 other Socialist newspapers, in addition to almost all the Communist organs, were at present banned. Berliners were urged to a gigantic effort to recover their liberty at the election on March 5. President Hindenburg has issued a decree restoring some of the outs in social services made last year, notabiy in pensions for war invalids. The total involved is £1,400,000. German industrialists urge the Government not to disturb civil peace, interfere with the civil service and increase unemployment by higher tariff's, which would eventually handicap even the farmers. The .Cabinet announces further market intervention to aid Germany to exclude foreign cereals, except where the latter are imported against a corresopnding exportation of German goods. The intention is to make Germany self-supporting and prevent her being starved out.