GERMAN NAZIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 11

GERMAN NAZIS.

BID FOR POWER.

MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.

PROPOSED ULTIMATUM.

ARMY TO RULE POLICE.

GOVERNMENT UNYIELDING'.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright "(Received July 19. 8.35 p.m.) LONDON. July 10.

A message from Berlin states that Herr Hitler, leader of the Nazis, proposes to send an ultimatum to the President, Marshal von Hindenburg, to the effect that the Brown Shirts will be armed unless the Government proclaims a state of emergency and makes possible the appointment of the generals commanding the various army corps as Federal Commissioners, with complete power to put the police under control of the army. This would mean placing Germany under a military dictatorship. The Hitlerites are hopeful that martial law would assist them to assume a dictatorship whatever the result of the Reichstag elections may He. The Government, however, is insistent that the army must not be brought into political disputes. METHODS OF POLICE. HERR HITLER PROTESTS. SERIOUS RESULTS OF CLASHES. (Received July 20, 1.15 a.m.) BERLIN, July 19. Herr Hitler has protested to the President against the Cossack methods of the police at Ivoenigsberg. He says that only the Nazis' boundless discipline averted an incalculable catastrophe.

The newspaper Vorwaerts says that in the month since the Nazis were permitted to wear uniforms there have been 99 people killed and 1125 Wounded in clashes.

ALTONA FIGHTING.

HERR HITLER'S THREAT. ARMS FOR SUPPORTERS. LONDON, July 18. Despatches from Berlin state that it is feared that 16 of those wounded in the disturbance at Altona, a suburb of Hamburg, will succumb to their injuries. In addition to the barricades which were erected with the aid of dust carts, Communists overturned a tram. Fierce fighting was quelled by torrential rains. The police unearthed quantities of leaflets inciting war against the Nazis. As a sequel to the fighting, the Government has prohibited processions and demonstrations throughout Germany.

Herr Hitler's threat'that he will arm his supporters has led the Government to declare that it will proceed with the utmost severity, even to the extent of the death penalty, against any political party possessing weapons and explosives. The special representative of the News Chronicle, who is accompanying Herr Hitler on his tour, says tho Nazi leader is not the demagogue he is commonly believed to be. Even his Napoleonic pose is not conscious. He has much personal dignity and is convinced of the uniqueness of his mission. He believes that destiny has selected him to restore Germany's power and prestige. Personally, Herr Hitler is austere, a non-smoker, vegetarian and teetotaller, and he stresses the importance of self-help. Wo wants the brotherhood of all classes and creeds.

BRITISH WORKERS.

SUPPORT FOR GERMANS. ANTI-FASCIST MANIFESTO. LONDON, July 18. The Berlin correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says 150 Socialist newspapers publish on their front pages a manifesto from the British trades unions and Labour Party signed by Mr. Walter Citrine and Mr. G. Lansbury, declaring that the struggle of the German workers is also the struggle of the British workers. This act of international solidarity has made a profound impression. It is the first foreign recognition of the Iron Front's struggle on behalf of German democracy against a Fascist dictatorship.

Miss Ellen Wilkinson arrived at Berlin to-day bearing from tho British Labour Party a five-foot banner embroidered: " Three cheers for tho Iron Front."