Britain and France Take United Action

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 August 1933, Page 8

Britain and France Take United Action

.«. IDENTICAL NOTES FOR BERLIN ATTENTION DRAWN TO TREATY OBLIGATIONS Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 5. The Anglo-French Embassies at Berlin have been instructed to hand the German Government identical Notes. They are friendly in tone and consist of only three paragraphs, citing the Four-Power Pact, Article 10 of the League Covenant and Article 80 of the Treaty of Versailles, emphasising the regrettable effect of Germany's wireless propaganda and aerial dropping of leaflets in Austria. More Communists for Concentration Camps ONE TO BE DECAPITATED Received Sunday, 7 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 5. Three hundred additional Communists have been arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Silesian police announce the discovery of a . revolutionary plot at Sehmedeberg. A Communist at Darmstadt was sentenced to decapitation, following a disturbance in which a Nazi was killed. Allegedly Insulted the Austrian Government GERMAN CORRESPONDENT GETS FORTNIGHT'S GAOL Received Sunday, 7. p.m. VIENNA, Aug. 5. Franz Riedel, a correspondent of the paper Germania, was sentenced summarily, to 34 days' imprisonment in connection with an article allegedly insulting the Austrian Government. Germany Takes Retaliatory Action PAMPHLET DISTRIBUTORS MAY BE SHOT WITHOUT TRIAL Received Sunday, 7 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 5. The secret police have arrested a number of Austrian*, 20 of whom have been ordered to leave the country, in retaliation against the arrests of five German newspaper representatives in Austria for sending articles in their papers attacking the Austrian Government. The Nazis announce that persons distributing pamphlets and leaflets against the Government are liable to be shot by the police or Brown Shirts without trial. The Prefect of Police has been ordered to nip in the bud—if necessary by the ruthless use of firearms—every attempt of the Communist elements to circulate propaganda. Friend of Hitler Appointed to Church Office Received Sunday, 7 p.m. BERLIN, Aug. 5. Dr. Mueller, Hitler's friend and adviser on Church affairs, has been appointed Evangelieal Bishop of Prussia. Jewish Typist at Consulate Itebels DISMISSAL AS SEQUEL Received Sunday, 7 p.m. CAPE TOWN, Aug. 5. A German-born Jewess typist at the German Consulate at Johannesburg was dismissed owing to failure to comply with" conditions prescribed at Berlin.