Hitler’s Iron Heel On German Necks

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 June 1933, Page 7

Hitler’s Iron Heel On German Necks

CASTLE AND COTTAGE >•. RUTHLESSLY RAIDED Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, June 27. • There were 550 arrests on Monday '.as a result of a fresh intensive drive. JPrinces, counts, barons and highlyplaced staff officers were included among those arrested, as well as Socialists and Communists. 1 There were 200 arrests at Madgeburg zalone, and they were particularly num»eroua in Bavaria, where the special motive was anger against the 'Catholics who criticised the draconic -measures of the Nazis. Hitler seems tc hope that if all the ■leaders are east into prison the non- " Nazi public will be more easily cowed -to submission. As Hitler said in an interview: ‘“Parliaments are doomed. All successful enterprises must be run on the Tbasis of a dictatorship. ” 1 The intensity of Hitler’s attack on •the Nationalists was shown to-night when a meeting which Herr Hugenberg, their leader, was addressing at ~the°Kroll Opera House, was banned at last moment, despite the fact that TSugenberg is still a member of Hit3er’s Cabinet. Rounding Up Bavarian Catholics ALLEGATIONS OF PROPAGANDA Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. . LONDON, June 27. The Daily Mail’s Munich correspondent reports General Himmler, chief of the Bavarian police, as saying that a .clean sweep of the People’s party (Catholic) is necessitated by searches .proving that the party was co-operat-ing with Dr. Dollfuss and the Austrian . Heimwehr for the dissolution of the Austrian Nazis. He adds; “Similarly it has been dis- - covered that political Catholicism is • doing its utmost to sabotage Hitlerism ..and is preparing a propaganda of socalled atrocities. ’ ’ Herr Wagner, Minister, declares that ■the day of parties has ended and anyone attempting to form one would be -arrested. •The “Air Raid” and its Sequel Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. GENEVA, June 27. The League Secretariat has received -over seventy protests from municipalities and private persons in Germany : against the so-called air raid, demanding that Germany be treated on an equality with other countries regarding protection against air raids.