EX-CROWN PRINCE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1932, Page 5

EX-CROWN PRINCE

IS A REAL DANGER TO THE WELFARE OF GERMANY. (United Press Association—By Electric Teiegraph—Copyright..' BERLIN, October 17. Despite there being official denials of the Socialist paper “Vonvaert’s” revelations concerning the Monarchist plot, the “Rhetnische Zeitung,” an organ of the Social Democrats, returns to the. subject, and it publishes extracts from a letter that the ex-Crown Prince wrote to General Greener, former Minister of Defence.

The newspaper Rhetnische Zeitung explains that it lias been forced to omit the decisive passages in the letter, which show that unless the exCrown. Prince is checked, he will cause the gravest of foreign political dangers. The ex-Crown Prince, in this letter, criticises as "a grave mistake” the dissolution of th© Hitlerite Storm Troops and body guards. He describes them as “wonderful human material, enjoying valuable training.” In another letter, to a Hitlerite, the Crown Princ© says: 'Though political parties may calumniate them, it is intolerable that the Steel Helmets and the Hitlerite. Forces* who are the real Upholders of the military idea in Germany, should combat with one another May they join hands, as in 1914-18, and place the Fatherland above sectional interests!

The leader of the Potsdam Hitlerites, commenting on this letter, ap- | peals to the ex-Crown Prince to take the leadership of the German nation in an hour of deepest need. NINE NEWSPAPERS, SUSPENDED. COLOGNE, October 15. Nine newspapers, the entire Nazi press of the Rhine Province, have been suspended for five days, for defamation of the Government. GERMAN TRADE POLICY. FIGBjT FOR FOREIGN MARKETS. BERLIN, October 16. Chancellor Von Papen, in a speech at Westphalia, outlining Germany’s attitude to the World Economic Conference, emphasised the impossibility of releasing foreign money at present invested in Germany. Foreigners must, therefore, consolidate their loans. He said that Germany would do her utmost to persuade the creditor nations that they would only recede payment i'f prepared to accept German goods ; therefore it would be Illogical.. to.„ de 7 mand repayment and ban German imports. Germany’s foreign indebtedness, a thousand millions sterling, •would not be an unbearable burden, if th e foreign frontiers were open. Unfortunately, Ottawa did not revive the confidence regarding raising the world’s economic barriers. Nevertheless, they must hop e in the Worlds Economic Conference, and the progress therein. He denied that the quota would endanger tlh e stability of German currency, and announced a big propaganda campaign abroad to popularise German goods. NAZIS NOMINATE SPEAKER. BERLIN, October 17. The Nazis have nominated General Litzman, aged 82, to oppose “Mad Clara” Zetkin, aged 75, for the speakership when the Reichstag re-assembles. General Litzman fought in the FraucoPrussian war and assisted Von Hindenhurg in breaking through the Russians in 1514. He later 'fought on the Western Front.

NAZIS AND SOCIALIST CLASH. FURTHER DISORDERLY SCENES. (Received th's dav at, 11.15 a.m.f VIENNA, October 17. Yesterday's fighting was worse than reported. The wounded numbered fifty, including twenty-four police. Seventy were arrested, including thirty four 'Socialists, who did most o.f the shooting. Further clashes occurred to-day. The Socialists were drawn up prepared to attack the troops, and were armed with machine guns, their intentions were only checked by the appeals of a Socialist deputy. Meanwhile, serious fighting took place at the university where the Nazis, armed with truncheons, steel rods, and knives, shouting ‘ “revenge for the simmering wounded,” tramped down and truncheoned twenty Jewish students.