GERMANY ARMING?

Hokitika Guardian, 28 August 1933, Page 5

GERMANY ARMING?

FRENCH CONCERN

ANTI-AUSTRIAN CAMPAIGN.

United Press Association—By Elec trio

Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 26.

France believes that Hitler’s antiAustrian campaign will not cease without strong international action, which France will see applied if the League find drastic remedy necessary. . Nobody in France doubts that Germany js rearming. Several dependable French newspapers detail Germany’s manufacturers of bombing planes, heavy artillery, and gas, and also drawattention to the approaching completion of the-, mechanisation of the Reichswehr, and the militarisation of the police and "Storm Troops. They state that it is significant that manufacturers continue to be kept busy. The Chamber recently passed a bill adjusting recruiting so ias to maintain tlie army at normality during the lean years from 1935 to 1938, due to the low birth rate during the war time.

POLICE RAID ON COMMUNISTS

BERLIN, August 26

Assisted by 'fifteen hundred Storin' Troopers, the police conducted a big raid and arrested forty alleged Communists, fiftte-11 of whom were sept to the concentration camps.

The police at Dresden arrested ninetyfive persons charged with activities in connection with the former Socialist workers’ party.

GERMANY’S INTEREST IN SAAR

PARIS, August 26

France is watching closely two monster Nazi demonstrations at Bingen and Niedervald, which are regarded as Hitler’s first public move in the campaign to win back the 'Saar for Germany.