GERMAN CRISIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 75, 10 March 1933, Page 7

GERMAN CRISIS

PROTEST FROM U.S.

ALLEGED ATTACKS ON AMERICANS.

OFFICIAL APOLOGY RECEIVED. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received 10, 10.30 a.m.) Washington, March 9. The State Department has disclosed the fact that protests have been made to the German Government against reported indignities and violence involving American citizens. EXPRESSION OF REGRET. (Received 10, 10.4-5 a.m.) Washington, March 9. In reply to representations concerning attacks on American citizens in Germany, the German Government expressed keen regret and gave an assurance that every measure would be taken to prevent similar occurrences. The cases are understood to have arisen from disorders in connection with the recent election. BERLIN BOURSE SENSATION. (Received 10, 10.45 a.m.) Berlin, March 9. Fifteen storm troopers inarched to the Bourse and demanded that the board of control should immediately resign. The board unanimously refused, declaring that it would accept orders only from the supreme authorities. Most shares subsequently fell. At Munich Captain Roehm, Herr Hitler’s chief of staff, escorted by storm troops, presented, the Bavarian Minister Herr Held, with an ultimatum demanding the appointment of a State Commissioner. In the meantime a Nazi, General von Epp, arrived by aeroplane from Berlin with an order in his pocket appointing him Commissioner. Cheering storm troopers welcomed him at the aerodrome. The Cabinet, fearing a demonstration, resigned, leaving General von Epp in control pending the inauguration of the new Government, wherein Nazis predominate. ACTION BY AUSTRIA. STATE OF EMERGENCY. (Received 10, 10.30 a.m.) Vienna, March 9. Parliament has suspended the Chancellor, M. Dollfuss, and issued decrees for a state of emergency, under which parades and mass meetings are forbidden and the freedom of the press restricted. The decrees are directed against the Nazis. It is estimated that the German Hitlerites have already sent nearly 2,000 professional propagandists to Austria. HITLER LAUDED. BULWARK AGAINST BOLSHEVISM Washington, Feb. 2. The Hitler regime in Germany is “the last bulwark against the red flood” of Bolshevism in Europe, according to Mr Kurt G. W. Ludecke. special representative in this country of the Hitler or National-Socialist party. The spokesman of Hitler’s party described his chief’s ascent to power as “a new epoch” for Germany and the world. “This is not a mere change of character, but a complete change of scene,' 1 he said. “It marks the appearance of the Third Empire.” Mr Ludecke recently established headquarters here as a representative of the chain of Nationalist-Socialist newspapers and also as interpreter to the American public of his party’s aims and programme. Ho dismissed the idea that Hitler might be the cause of another European war by saying that the Nazi leader was ‘ much too busy” with internal problems of Germany “to burden himself with another war.” “A new European war, or the elimination of Hitler and the breakdown of the National-Socialist movement would inevitably lead to the Bolshevisation of Germany and Europe,” he said. “This would mean not only that the United States would lose forever the billions of dollars invested in Europe, but also that ultimately it, too, would succumb to Bolshevism. “Hitler realises,” he explained, “that the world pest of Bolshevism—the religion of class hatred and terror —cannot be conquered with bayonets. The people must be immunised mentally and spiritually against the Marxian poison, and this will be accomplished by National Socialism, which strives to set a common interest before self to give to each his own. and to abolish the thraldom of interest.

“More than any other statesman in Europe Hitler recognises the world political necessity for white solidarity, which suffered such a terrific blow by the Great War—the civil war of the white men. For this, friendly relations between Germany and the United States are a natural prerequisite.’’