Great Nazi Demonstration

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7063, 24 January 1933, Page 7

Great Nazi Demonstration

Memory of Dead Comrade

ADDRESS BY HITLER

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, Jan. 22. Ton thousand Nazis shivered in the 'bitter cold and falling snow, awaiting tho great demonstration in Buelow Square in memory of tho Nazi student Horst Wcssel, whom Communists murdered in 1930. Thousands of police, including detachments armed with carbines and threo machine-gunned armoured cars, guarded tho Square, and took other precautions to prevent a clash with tho Communists. Tho precautions included a search of Karl Liebkncch't’s house, and also the Communist headquarters overlooking the square for arms and munitions. Notwithstanding this, tho Communists assembled in forco in tho neighbourhood, and numerous disturbances followed, in which scores wero injured. Two of the police wero badly knifed. The police swiftly scattered the combatants with baton charges aud firing shots in tho air. Searchlight patrols continued after dark.

Tho Nazis made a procession to tho cemetery, where a memorial to Wcssol was unveiled by Herr Hitler, who declared that Nazis would fight until tho great hour arrived when disunity and distress and hunger disap-

peared from Germany. He recalled Bismarck’s words, “We Germans fear God and no one else, oven if the world is full of devils.’’

The ox-Kaiser and Crown Prince sent wreaths.

Armed police shepherded tho Nazi procession through the working class quarters, where Communists erected barricades of dustbins and blazing mattresses, necessitating the attentions of tho firo brigade. Communists in North Berlin dropped blazing oil barrels on tho Nazis marching homeward. Tho casualties include a woman badly wounded and a man shot dead by police bullets, and four policemen stabbed. A hundred arrests took placo.

Two Killed. in Fascist Riot in Austria

Received Monday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 23. Tho Manchester. Guardian’s Vienna correspondent states that two were killed and six injured wheu fifty students who were Fascists incited by a lieutenant of reserves, besiegod the military barracks at Bron, in Moravia. The Fascists armed with steel helmets and rifles, scaled the walls and disarmed the guards. A battlo was in progress when tho police arrived. Thirty-five of the Fascists were arrested but their leader escaped over tho German frontier.