HAPPENINGS IN GERMANY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 105, 15 April 1933, Page 7

HAPPENINGS IN GERMANY

PROFESSORS DISMISSED. QUESTIONNAIRE FOR TEACHERS. (Received 15, 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, April 14. A number of prominent Jewish professors at German universities, including the economist Professor Bonn and Professors Lederer and Kelson, have been granted leave of absence, which is tantamount to dismissal. All professors and teachers at universities and high schools will be given a questionnaire calculated to reveal whether they are purely of Aryan origin and, if not, they will be dismissed. The German Press Association has expelled Jews and Marxists. CATHOLIC CENTRE JARTY. ATTITUDE OF VATICAN. (Received 15, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, April 14. The “Daily Mail’s’’ Rome correspondent says that the Pope, in receiving Herr von Papen and Captain Goering, refused the Vatican’s support-for there formation of the German Catholic Centre Party on a different basis, enabling it to support Herr Hitler’s Government. He also declined to conclude a general concordat with the German Reich as a whole, replacing the three existing ones with Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden, saying that the Vatican prefers to maintain separate relations with the German States rather than with the central Government. HOUSE OF COMMONS ATTACK. RESENTED BY BERLIN PRESS. (Received 15, 12.20 p.m.) BERLIN, April 14. There is a strong press outcry against the speeches in the House of Commons (see page 8). The “Deutche Allegemeine Zcitung” believes that the Government will sharply rebuke tho falsehoods, but adds that conimonsensc historical experience will prove that foreign political considerations should not be neglected. (Received 15. 11.20 a m.) BFRLIN, April 14. The Government has instructed the German Ambassador to lodge an energetic protest with the British Government in view of tho anti-German statements in the House of Commons yesterday. ’l’he “Allgemeine Zoitung” points out the unfairness of members of i'he House of Commons in not reproaching Poland for anti-German, unlawful and brutal violence. COMMUNISTS SHOT DOWN. BURGOMASTER’S SUICIDE. (Received 15, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 13. Nazis in Munich shot three Communists dead, and wounded a fourth while ho was attempting to escape from the Dachan concentration camp. Following arrest on charges of breach of trust, the assistant burgomaster of Dusseldorf hanged himself in his cell. Nazis arrested the chief burgomaster, Herr Lehr, on similar charges. An imprisoned Communist named Zitau was shot dead by a Nazi “while attempting to escape.’’ , “A DEED OF BLOOD.” POLICE COMMENT ON CRIME. (Received 15, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, April 13. The police characterise the killing of Dr. Weiner ns a deed of blood which must bo cleared up for the sake of Germany’s good name. Storm troops deny knowledge o£ the affair. FORMER GERMAN CITIES AWAITING LIBERATION. (Received 15, 11.20 a.m.) BERLIN, April 14. Fifteen thousand, including represenlathes of the Reichswehr, Stahlhelms and Nazi storm troops, attended the unveiling of a monument at Koenigsblick on the German-Polish frontier. Inscriptions on the monument recorded the names of former German cities ‘‘awaiting liberation.” The local Governor, in an unveiling speech. hoped the moment would strengthen German determination “that. «hal we have lost must not remain lost ”