IN GERMANY

Hokitika Guardian, 10 March 1933, Page 5

IN GERMANY

GREAT CHANGES A NEW REGIME. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, March 9. German Government circles claim that what is tantamount to a revolution in Germany has passed off with remarkably little unpleasant incident. Though the Nazis are entitled to point' to an absence of large-scale violence, local incidents of violence and intimidation are still occurring. Workmen are being killed in bouses and streets by unknown assailants. Communist prisoners have been shot while, it is stated, they were trying to escape. Individuals have been dragged from their beds by uniformed men and they have simply disappeared. Helpless people are being roughly treated in raids.

Prominent Jews receive threatening letters, and distinguished persons, who are credited with “left” sympathies find that an indefinite absence from home is advisable.

In the aggregate, these incidents are beginning to n&sume impressive proportions, and are causing the newspapers to urge that the Government shall enforce discipline and so guin ■a. mastery over its own mass following.

Herr Goering has allotted Liebknecht House (formerly the Communist headquai-ters) as the headquarters for the storm troops, whose Berlin leader, Count Helldorf, has declared that for every storm trooper killed in Berlin or in Brandenurg, three Communists will answer with their lives.

Chancellor Hitler has received the Italian Ambassador, Signor Cerutti, conveying Signor Mussolini’s personal congratulations on the success of the Nazis. *

NAZIS PROTECT SMALL TRADERS

BERLIN, March 9.

The Nazis have closed 'the multiple “one-piece” and other stores in the Ruhr. This is on the ground that they are Jewish controlled stores and that they threaten ruin to the small German, traders.

CHILDREN ’ S DEMONSTRATION

BERLIN, March 9.

Tho school children were given a holiday to celebrate Chancellor Hitler’s victory. The children donned brpwn shirts, and the streets' shouting, “Wake up Germany!” and singing Nazi songs. They wildly cheered Herr, Hitler, who watched a mile long procession in the Willhelmstrasse. AMERICAN MAN-HANDLED. BERLING, March 9. Herr Goering has issued a statement declaring that the men who manhandled three American citizens, in eluding two Jews, were not Hitlerites, but were agents—provacateurs disguised in the Hitlerite uniform. COMMUNISTS ACCUSED. BERLIN, “March 9. The Nazis declare that the maltreatment of foreigners is due to Communist spies and provacateurs wearing storm troop uniforms, and seeking to discredit the Nazis abroad. NAZIS USE IRON-FIST.

NEW COMMISSIONER FOR , BAVARIA.

'(Received March 10 at 10.45 a.m.) BERLIN, March 9.

Fifteen storm troopers marched to the bourse and demanded that the board of control! should immediately /©sign. The board unanimously refused, declaring that they would only accept orders from the supreme authorities. Most shares subsequently fell. At Munich Captain Rrehm, Hitler’s chief >oif .staff, escorted by storm troops, presented the Bavarian Premier, Herr Held, with an ultimatum demanding the (appointment of a State Commissioner. Cabinet hastily assembled*. Meantime, the Nazi general, von Epp, arrived by aeroplane from Berlin with an order in his pocket appointing him Commissioner. Cheering storm troops welcomed him at the arerodrome. Onbinet, fearing a demonstration, resigned, leaving von Eipp in control, pending the (appointment of the new Government wherein Nazis will predominate.