Castor Oil for Communists

Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 7103, 11 March 1933, Page 7

Castor Oil for Communists

Deputies Won't be Allowed in Reichstag

NAZIS TO INTERN THEM IN CAMPS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Friday, 10 p.m. BERLIN, Mar. 10.

The continual Nazi outrages have caused the authorities to call a halt to the irresponsible outbursts and restore normality, although it is doubtful when discipline can be reiinposcd. To-day’s shootings and raidings in Brunswick include the murder of a trades unionist when tho promises were seized and the murder of the publisher of a Socialist newspaper at Chemnitz. The Nazis have now seized power in such States as were not already undor their control. Bavaria, Baden, Wurtemburg and Saxony, the four greatest aftor Prussia, were dominated by the stroke of a pen and only tho control of the Reichswchr is lacking to mako Germany a completely Hitlerite State. While the police looked on, Nazis arrested judges and high officials at Chemnitz and insultingly harangued the Mayor of Coblenz. Nazis maltreated guests at a Madgeburg hotel and smashed the furniture They attacked the Peruvian Consul at Bremen.

By midnight the Nazis were masters of Munich. Storm troops occupied the Bavariau Parliament after resistance by the police, who long tried to prevent tho hoisting of the swastika. The excitement wa3 unabated at a late hour and troops paraded tho streets, followed by crowds. A great Nazi ceremony was held in the Odeonsplatz, whore Von Epp declared they had come to ensure tho maintenance of law and order, and asked the people’s support. The scone was illuminated by searchlights and torches. In Berlin Nazis broke into a trade union building and wrecked the offices. Reports everywhere received state that tho Nazis arc torturing Communists, forcing them to swallow castor oil and thrashing them with steel rods after which they are taken to prison and iniirmaries.

Herr Frick (Minister of the Inter ior) at a Nazi meeting declared: “Communist deputies will not bo allowed to attend the Reichstag, but will be interned in concentration camps, where they do more useful work than in Parliament.’’

Storm Troops in Action in

Rhineland

FRENCH REGARD INCIDENT AS SERIOUS

Received Friday, 8 p.m. PARIS, Mar. 10,

Captain Offermann, in chargo of the Customs house at Kchl bridge, and 500 storm troops occupied the station and disused barracks on the right bank of the Rhine, opposite Strasburg, and hoisted the swastika.

The incident is regarded as serious, because Kchl is within the demilitarised zone in the Rhineland. The French bridge guard has been reinforced.

Hitler’s Rule of Force

ATTEMPT TO CONTROL BERLIN BOURSE.

BERLIN, March 9.

Fifteen Nazi storm troopers marched into the Bourse and demanded that the Board of Control immediately resign. The Board unanimously refused, declaring it could only accept the orders of the supreme authorities. Most shares subsequently fell.

Bavarian Government Dismissed

BERLIN, March 9,

At Munich, Captain Boehm, Hitler’s chief of staff, escorted by storm troops, presented the Bavarian Premier with an ultimatum demanding the appointment of a State Commissioner. Cabinet was hastily assembled. In the meantime the Nazi, General von Epp, arrived by aeroplane from Berlin with an order in his pocket appointing him Commissioner. Cheering storm-troopers welcomed him at the aerodrome. Cabinet, fearing a demonstration, resigned, leaving General von Epp in control pending a new government, wherein Nazis will predomiate.

Germany’s Foreign Relations

FREE CITY OF DANZIG FEARS AGGRESSION. GENEVA, March 9. The High Commissioner of Danzig has requested the League to intervene in the Polish-Danzig situation, being apprehensive of German intentions. Poland has strengthened the Danzig harbour garrison near Poland’s ammunition depot. The Danzig Senate declares this violates the Polisli-Danzig treaty.

[Geographically as well as historically Danzig was claimed by Poland and its ultimate destination became one of tho most difficult problems of the Peace Conference, the nationality of its inhabitants, who are German and Polish, adding to the complication The Conference therefore decided that Danzig should be a free city under the League of Nations, which appoints the High Commissioner as Governor.]

Crisis in Austria CAUSED BY NAZI PROPAGANDISTS VIENNA, March 9. Parliament has suspended Chancellor DoUfuss and issued decrees that

a state of emergency exists, under which parade*, and mass meetings are forbidden and the freedom of the Press restricted. The decrees are directed against the Nazis. It is estimated that the German Hitlerites have already sent nearly two thousand professional propagandists to Austria. Confusion Reigns in Vienna GARRISON STANDING BY FOR EMERGENCIES Received Friday, 10.30 p.m. VIENNA, Mar. 170. Confusion Tcigns and the entire garrison has been ordered to stand-to in readiness for emergencies. Dl-treatment of Americans WASHINGTON, March 9. The State Department discloses that protests wore made to the German Government against the reported indignities and violence involving American citizens in Germay.