TENSION IN GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21201, 6 June 1932, Page 9

TENSION IN GERMANY.

NEW GOVERNMENT.

PROGRAMME denounced.

©eichstag dissolved.

TALK OF CIVIL WAft.

fears for republic. 33y Telegraph—Prer-a Association—Copyright. (Received Juno 5, E. 5 p.m.) BERLIN". June 4. The President, Marshal von Hindenburg, has dissolved the Reichstag. It is expected that a general election will bo liaTil in July. The decree of dissolution was signed by the President at tho instance of tho nctf Chancellor, Herr von Pi.pen. An election manifesto issued by the Cabinet says: " The unprecedented material and moral crisis demands the uniting of all tho. national forces and the realisation by tho Reich, that the finances of Prussia and tho other States are shaken and tho social insurances nro facing bankruptcy. " The steady increase in unemployment has been accelerated by cultural Bolshevisation which threatens Germany's moral fibre. Atheistic and Marxian ideas have entered into public life deeply because Governments bavo eagerly compromised, converting tho State into a welfare organisation,. Pate of Republic in the Balance.

" The post-war Governments have bequeathed to tho State an impossible task. Germany must be rebuilt on unchanged Christian ideals. Tho new Government •will not hesitatl to fight for the maintenance <?f tbo vital foundations of public T.'clfare, especially for tho workers." Liberal opinion in Germany is convinced that the ultimate aim of the new Government is to overthrow the Republic and the 'revival of tho power of the military and? land-owning classes.

Commentators state that if that be tho purpose behind this wefck's caricature of politics, then civil war in Germany is not far off.

Germany will bo represented at tbo Lsusanno Conference by- a Government .without a shadow of justification for any pretension to spe.ik for lier. Manifesto Bitterly Criticised. The Socialist and Radical newspapers regard /the Cabinet's programme as a declaration of war. Vorwaerts declares that the fight against the Nazi Barons must be fought to tho bitter end. The Tageblatt stigmatises tho programme as reactionary 'and as threatening whatever progress has been achieved since Germany became a Republic. The Vossische Zeiturig criticises the Chancellor's omission to repeat Dr. Bruening's challenge that Germany will not pay further reparations. PRESIDENT MAT RESIGN. QUESTION OF SUCCESSOR. - EX-CROWN PRINCE NAMED. POSSIBILITY OF REVOLUTION. (Received June 5/ 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 5. Despatches from Berlin stato that reports persist in tho German capital that the President, Marshal von Hindenburg, .will resign on his next birthday (October 2) and urge, the election of the ex-Crown .Prince as his successor.

The Berlin correspondent of tho Oblerver says the whole machinery of the body politic ia out of gear. The newsPapers are violently denouncing tho new methods of government, but they are confounded by the salient fact that Herr lon Papen's policy for the Lausanne Conference does not differ from that of his predecessor, L>r. Brucnlng. The new Government':} manifesto shows tkat the foundations of the nation s ccoUoinic life have been shattered by unemployment insurance and pan only bo restored by the co-operation of all parties. Ibo Sunday Express , elates that although rumours that a rev.olt has actually broken out in Germany aro denied there is unparalleled tension, with a possibility of a revolution, or a dictatorship, or both, in the coming week.