NAZI RULE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 77, 13 March 1933, Page 7

NAZI RULE

OLD GERMAN FLAG RESTORED EXCITEMENT AT MUNICH. WARNING TO TRADE UNIONS. (Received 13, 10.10 a m.) Berlin, March 11. Herr Adolf Hitler is reported to have issued orders restoring the old Empire flag as Germany’s emblem. The Republican Beichsbanner organisation throughout Bavaria has been dissolved and the display of its flags and badges has been prohibited. The police confiscated its property. Captain Goering, Minister in charge of the Police, told a Swedish interviewer that Germany would not tolerate the existence of Socialist trade unions aud that tho whole movement would be reconstructed on a national basis as in Italy. Dr. Luther is reported to be resisting Herr Hitler’s demand to use the Reichsbank’s reserves to finance unemployment schemes. It is rumoured that his resignation as president of the bank is imminent. Herr Schacht is mentioned as hiii successor, GOVERNMENTS RESIGN. The Governments of Saxony and Baden have resigned. Herr von Killinger, on behalf of the Reich, placed the Nazis in charge of the Saxon Ministries and a new Government is being formed in Baden. The Governments of Bavaria and Saxony will be reformed without elections, on the basis of Sunday’s vote, giving the Nazis predominance everywhere. The police dispersed Brown Shirts who were picketing the Jewish shops. Austrians and Czechs seeking vistas bear traces of beatings. Many Jews have left Germany, and others are departing. The Upper Silesian Catholic Press has been suppressed. The manager of a Breslau theatre ; was dragged to the forest where. Nazis beat him until he was rescued by the police. The Nazis declare an intention of cleansing the stage from the dirt and rubbish hitherto displayed, and are replacing the theatre managers. NAZIS CONTROL MUNICH. By midnight last night the Nazis were masters of Munich. Storm troops occupied the Bavarian Parliament after resistance by the police, who for a long time tried to prevent the hoisting of the swastika. The excitement was unabated at a late hour, troops parading the streets followed by crowds. . . A celebration of the great Nazi victory was -held in the Odeonsplatz, where General von Epp declared that they had come to ensure the maintenance of law and order, and asked for the people’s support. The scene was illuminated by searchlights and torches. UNAUTHORISED MOVEMENTS REPORTED. STRONG MEASURES AGAINST COMMUNISTS. (Received 13, 12.30 p.m.) Berlin, March 12. Following the general seizure of power, individual Nazis have begun unauthorised miniature coups. The most notable is that of Herr Strickler, who proclaimed himself Commissioner for North Bavaria and marched to Nurenberg at the head of storm troops, causing the Stahlhelms strongly to protest to the Government. A Nazi appointed himself Lord Mayor at Altona and arrested four Senators and several officials. Storm troops occupied the Breslau Exchange and suspended business; they also invaded the law courts and expelled Jewish judges and lawyers. There were numerous similar arrests of mayors in many towns. Another 100 political arrests have been made at Berlin, where it is now disclosed that a number of the Jews and Communists arrested in the early days of Hitler’s rule were manhandled and confined in a dark cellar almost without food. To-day they were taken to the. police station. The police at Hamburg closed big stores, including Woolworths, “in the interests of public security.’’ Auxiliaries in Wurttemberg throughout the night arrested Communists, who were dragged from their beds and taken to unknown destinations. Two hundred Communists and officials were arrested at Stuttgart. Communists are not invited to the opening of the Reichstag on March 31. [< they attend they will be arrested. M. DALADIER’S HOPE. ■ PLEDGE OF BRITISH SUPPORT. (Received 13, 10.15 a.m.) London, Mar. 11. Several Paris correspondents affirm the Nazi rule in Germany figured largely in the discussions between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and the French Premier, Mr. Daladier, who is represented as trying hard but vainly to secure a pledge of British support in the event of trouble. Franco-British ’ official circles in Paris regard the enrolment of Stahlhelm’s Storm Troops in the police as a breach of the Versailles Treaty, necessitating diplomatic representations. ALL COPIES SEIZED. SUSPENSION OF “TAGEBLATT.” (Received 13, 10.20 a.m.) ’ London, Mar. 12. ‘‘The Times’ ” Berlin correspondent states that the “Tageblatt” has been suspended, and all copies seized, because while citing the masterliness of the Naxi coup it deprecated silence about unjustifiable actions, including unauthorised arrests. ALLEGED NAZI TORTURINGS. OPPONENTS TERRIBLY BEATEN. (Received 13, 2.45 p.m.) London, March 12. Tho “Daily Herald” correspondent who has reached Prague from Berlin says that only by leaving Germany is; he able to reveal details of the Nazi’ toruring of opponents. He alleges that a number of Communists were thrust into a room and forced to raise j their arms and shout. “We love l

Hitler” and sing Nazi songs, they were then terribly beaten with whips and truncheons, and one died. Oue Heichsbanner man was locked in a cell where he could neither sit nor lie down. Ho was kept there for two days and dragged out periodically to be kicked and ill-treated. His hair was shaved and his scalp painted white. He was only released when he signed an undertaking to remain politically neutral. These and many mwe cases occurred in Berlin aud similar torturings were carried out in most provincial centres. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN PRUSSIA. (Received 13, 1.10 p.m.) Berlin, March 12. Tho municipal elections in Piussia and other States were quietly conducted. At Berlin a resident dropped dead while voting. The polling was much lighter than on March 4 because the Nazi predominance makes a constitutional mandate superfluous.