GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 June 1932, Page 5

GERMANY

ROYALIST PARTY ABOLITION OF VERSAILLES TREATY RETURN OF COLONIES (Unitid Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, 18th June. The new German Royalist Party, styled the Social Monarchist Party, is plastering the walls of German cities with the appeal “With God for Germany’s freedom for the Kaiser and the Empire.” The party will make the Monarchy the main question at the coming election. It is also demanding the abolition of the Versailles Treaty, and the return of former German colonies. The party favours universal military training, and its organisers, Captain Kratz and Captain Hausler, are confident of success.

At the reassembly of tlie Bavarian Diet at Munich, 42 Nazi deputies entered, uniformed, and refused to withdraw, singing and cheering Hitler. The sitting was suspended, and the offenders were removed.

Cabinet has now banned uniforms throughout Bavaria until the 30th September.

SERIOUS CLASHES COMMUNISTS~AND NAZIS COLOGNE, 18th June. Forty were injured, many seriously, in a street battle between Communists and Nazis at Birkesdorf. Communists stoned a Nazi meeting. Nazi reinforcements arrived and engaged in a fierce fight. Serious rioting occurred at Herne, where fifty were injured. A Communist councillor named Kuhn, was stabbed and eight times beaten with iron bars. He is in a critical condition. A policeman and a civilian were killed in a street fight between the police and Communists at Hamburg. EXCITEMENT IN MUNICH NAZI DEMONSTRATION (Received 20th June, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, 19th June. “The Times” Munich correspondent states that the city is simmering with excitement as tlie result of 5000 Nazis defying the State Government’s ban and suddenly appearing in their true colours before tlie Premier’s bouse, until after two hours’ pandemonium the police were sufficiently reinforced to disperse them with baton charges. The Nazis, in full uniform, marched to Herr Held’s house shouting: “Hail, Hitler!” while women and children taking their Sunday walks fled, screaming. The crowd echoed cheers for Hitler and hooted the police, whose small cordon was almost overpowered when hundreds of armed gendarmes, troops, and mounted police turned the scale and arrested 200. Tlie injured numbered a score.

The Nazi prisoners continued to yell defiance after they were locked up. POLICE CHARGE MANY NAZIS WOUNDED (Received 20th June, 12.25 p.m.) COLOGNE, 19th June. Hundreds of uniformed Nazis, defying prohibition, tried to execute a propaganda march, savagely attacking intervening police. Nazis at headquarters armed themselves with chairs, benches, and office fittings. The police, firing revolvers, charged the Hitlerites, wounding many and seizing the building. Uniformed Nazis and Communists also clashed viciously, the police having to rescue Nazis from their opponents. Serious disturbances occurred at Essen, Bochum, Duisburg, and Wuppertal. One death resulted and numbers were injured.