GERMANY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 July 1932, Page 5

GERMANY

ELECTION CAMPAIGN JEWISH VOTE TO GO TO CATHOLIC CENTRE (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, 28th July. It is understood that the Jewish vote on Sunday will go to the Catholic Centre, which the Jews regard as the only party capable by numbers and influence to keep the anti-Semitism of the Hitlerites in check. Correspondents appear unanimous that Hitler will not have an absolute majority. ELECTIONFIGHTING NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS , LONDON, 18th July. “A sanguinary catastrophe is possible at any moment in Germany if the police interfere with Nazi parades,” says the leader of the Nazis, -Herr Hitler, in a telegram to the President, Marshal von Hindenburg, and the Chancellor, Ilerr von Papen, according to the Berlin correspondent of “The Times.’" The correspondent says the prospect of the death penalty for the possession of firearms comes strangely after the long period during which the killing of political opponents was seldom punished with death. Such leniency is largely the cause of the present outbreaks. Indeed, the Nazis’ and the Communists voted, together in the Prussian Diet to release over 500 persons accused of political murder and manslaughter. Fighting occurred at Altona. in a district of ill-reputed streets, cafes, dance halls and working-class tenements. It lasted several hours, the police using carbines, revolvers and tear gas. An armoured car fought both Communists and Nazis, whose marching in such a district was a provocation to the Communists.

Terrifying spectacles were electric trams, the drivers of which had been pulled down or shot at their posts, careering onwards with shots shattering the window's and passengers screaming for help. The election campaign is daily becoming more abandoned. All parties are using the victims of political murder to inflame popular passions. A Nazi poster at Breslau shows the bodies of two Nazis, and imputes the responsibility for their deaths to specified high local officials. The police fired on a demonstration of unemployed at Langenselbold, killing two. Women Communists tore up a pavement at Nordhorn and built barricades, from behind which they greeted 1500 Nazis with a volley of stones and revolver, shots. A Roman Catholic priest, following out his bishop’s instructions, refused burial to a Nazi. Hitler’s newspaper demands his arrest for a crime against the German people, and declares that the Catholic Party is worthy to take its place alongside Bolshevist hangmen and mass murderers.