Cowed Into Submission

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7194, 28 June 1933, Page 7

Cowed Into Submission

Hitler’s Iron Heel On German Necks

CASTLE AND COTTAGE RUTHLESSLY RAIDED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright, Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, Juno 27. There were 550 arrests on Monday as a result of a fresh intensive drive. Princes, counts, barons and highlyplaced staff officers xvero included among those arrested, as avcll as Socialists and Communists. There were 200 arrests at Madgeburg alone, and they were particularly numerous in Bavaria, AA'hcro the special motive Avas Nazi anger against the Catholics Avho criticised the draconic measures of the Nazis. Hitler seems to hope that if all the leaders arc cast into prison tho nonNazi public Avill bo more easily coAA-ed to submission. As Hitler said in an interview: “Parliaments are doomed. All successful enterprises must be run on the basis of a dictatorship.” The intensity of Hitler’s attack on. the Nationalists Avas shown to-night when a meeting which Herr Hugcnberg, their leader, was addressing at the Kroll Opera House, was banned at the last moment, despito the fact that Hugcnberg is still a member of Hitler’s Cabinet. Rounding Up Bavarian Catholics ALLEGATIONS OF PROPAGANDA Received Tuesday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, June 27. The Daily Mail’s Munich correspondent reports General Himmler, chief of the Bavarian police, as saying that a clean sweep of the People’s party (Catholic) is necessitated by searches proving that the party was co-operat-ing Avith Dr. Dollfuss and tho Austrian Heimwehr for the dissolution of the Austrian Nazis. He adds: “Similarly it has been discovered that political Catholicism is doing its utmost to sabotage Hitlerism and is, preparing a propaganda of socalled atrocities.” Herr Wagner, Minister, declares that jthe day of parties has ended and anyone attempting to form one would be (arrested. Priest, Prince and Plebian HITLER SUPPRESSES EVERYBODY. BERLIN, June 2d. Following demands for the suppression of tho Bavarian People’s Party, their leader, a priest named Father Johann Seicht, was arrested while in bed at Bamberg. Many other Catholics and Socialists have been arrested for allegedly conducting subversive propaganda against rthe Government. Communists and Socialists to the number of 4.65 have been arrested in Prussia “for their own safety.” Party Leaders Also Arrested MUNICH, June 26. The People’s Party arrests number hundreds, including the leaders, Schaeffer, von Lex and Pfeiffer, also Prince won Wrcde and Baron Hirsch. Some who had been forewarned fled. The “Air Raid” and its Sequel Received Tuesday, 9.50 p.m. GENEVA, June 27. Tho League Secretariat has received over seventy protests from municipalities and privato persons in Germany against the so-called air raid, demanding that Germany bo treated on an equality with other countries regarding protection against air raids.