TASK BEFORE NAZIS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 75, 10 March 1933, Page 8

TASK BEFORE NAZIS

SUPPRESSION OF VIOLENCE INCIDENTS STILL OCCURRING COMMUNIST INFLUENCE “ Times ” Cables Berlin, Mar. 9. Government circles claim that what was tantamount to a revolution passed off with remarkably little unpleasant incident. Though the Nazis are entitled to point to the absence of large scale violence, local incidents of violence and intimidation are still occuring. Workmen are killed in houses and streets by unknown assailants and Communist prisoners are shot while it is stated that they are trying to escape, Individuals are dragged from their bede by uniformed men and simply disappear, helpless people are roughly treated in raids, prominent Jews receive threatening letters and distinguished persons credited with ‘‘Left” sympathies find indefinite absence from home advisable.

In the aggregate these incidents are beginning to assume impressive proportions, causing newspapers to urge the Government to enforce discipline and so gain the mastery over its own mass fol. lowing. Captain Goering has allotted Liebneeht House as headquarters for the storm troops whose Berlin leader, Count Helldorf, declared that for every storm trooper killed in Berlin and Brandenburg three Communists will answer with their lives. Herr Hitler received Ambassador Ceruitti conveying Signor Mussolini’s personal congratulations on the success of the Nazis. Nazis declare that the maltreatment of foreigners is due to Communist spies and provocateurs; wearing the storm troop uniform, geeking to discredit the Nazis abroad. HITLER WILDLY CHEERED. Nazis closed mutiple one-priee and other stores in the Ruhr on the ground that they are Jewish eontroUed and threaten to ruin small German traders. Berlin school children were given a holiday to celebrate Herr Hitler’s victory. They donned brown shirts and marched through the streets shouting: “ Wake up, Germany,” and singing Nazi songs. They wildly cheered Herr Hitler, who watched the mile long procession in the Wilhelmstrasse. Three were killed and six wounded when storm troops occupied the trade union headquarters at Breslau.