THE GERMAN EAGLE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 238, 5 September 1933, Page 7

THE GERMAN EAGLE

SECRET ARMING REPORTED. VERSAILLES TREATY DEFIED. LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Sept. 3. The Powers have received information proving that Germany is secretly accumulating arms in all five categories forbidden bv the Versailles Treaty. With the militarised police, her armed forces number 1,085,000. “Voluntary” labour corps are training as militia with other irregular forces, divided into seven army corps, which are subdivided into divisions, brigades and companies. They possess cavalry units, engineer companies and motor sections, and are specially organised tor sudden attacks. Anti-tank and gas sections are all commanded by Reichswelir officers. There are even railway guards. Armed high-speed aeroplanes, ostensibly civil units, but which are convertible into bombers, with gas-sprayers, are being built in Bavaria, and 900 Nazi pilots are organised on military lines. Tanks are being produced at Breslau and Mannheim, and poison gas is being manufactured at Dresden and Hamburg.

LESSON FROM CONGRESS

STORM BATTALION TRAINING

THE ANTI-JEWISH POLICY.

(Times Cables.) Received September 5, 11 a.m. LONDON. Sept. 4. The lesson from Nuremburg really, says the Times’s Berlin correspondent, is'that the training and organising of storm battalions will be pursued unremittingly. Their discipline and equipment have markedly improved since the Nazis attained power and their potential military value progressively increases.

The congress demonstrated that the anti-Jewish policy will not be modified, but the worst of the campaign is apparently over with the elimination of Jewish doctors, lawyers and other professionals, whose lot is tragic. Jewish shopkeepers managing to carry on may survive the oppression. The anti-Semetic speeches of Herr Hitler and Dr Goebels at Nuremburg were followed by an unofficial boycott of Jewish shops. Pickets roughly handled would-be customers and the authorities did not interfere.

FRANCE’S POSITION

FACING THE THREAT.

PARIS, Sept. 4. The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Paul Boncour, speaking a.t the unveiling of a memorial to M. Briand, at Trebeurden, Britanny, declared that France was strong enough to resist violence and face the threat coming from across the frontier. The quiet visit of the Premier, M. Daladier, to the frontier defences was a suitable reply to the outbursts which were deeply disturbing the atmosphere of pieace so essential to the restoration of Europe.

EFFECT OF TREATMENT.

GIRL IN ASYLUM.

(Times Cables.) LONDON, Sept. 4. The Munich correspondent of the Times says that Fraulein Betti Suss, whom Storm Troopers dragged through the streets of Nuremberg placarded “I offered myself to a Jew,” has become mentally affected in consequence of the ill-treatment she received. She haa been sent to an asylum.

The Nuremberg correspondent of the Times stated on August 23 last that included among disgusted foreigners who were forced to witness the spectacle of marching a shaven, white-faced girl in a state of collapse through the city streets and hotels, were the son and daughter of the new American Ambassador. The girl was placarded: “I offered myself to a Jew,” and she repeatedly stumbled as she walked, whereupon a stalwart Brown Shirt replaced her on her feet, frequently shouldering her to afford a better view to the crowds who, blocking the streets, cheered and jeered jocularly, and invited her to make a speech.