GERMANY ANGERED.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 110, 10 April 1937, Page 9

GERMANY ANGERED.

BY AUSTRIAN INCIDENT. INSCRIPTIONS ON WREATHS. LONDON, April 9. A message from Berlin states that it is expected that Germany will protest to Austria owing to a guard being placed at the grave of the parents of the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, at Leonding, near Linz. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that German anger was aroused by tile incident. An Austrian, a retired railwayman named Reinhold Brueckner, and his wife were fined £3 and the mail deprived of his pension lor placing wreaths on tho grave. “Germans will be struck speechless by this monstrous Austrian police measure,” says the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. There is strong comment in other papers also. The Vienna correspondent of the Times says Viennese official circles state that it was not the acual laying of tho wreaths which the Austrian authorities regarded as reprehensible, but the fact that they bore inscriptions the wording of which could only be regarded as a wilful political demonstration. That on Herr Brueckner’s wreath read: “To the father of the saviour oi Germany and of the man who will liberate Austria. His wife’s read: “We thank you in death. We thank you for your son.” Herr Brueckner has before been punished for Nazi activities.