CLASH IN BRUNSWICK

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21453, 29 March 1933, Page 9

CLASH IN BRUNSWICK

STEEL HELMETS RAIDED FORBIDDEN ORGANISATIONS ALLEGED COUNTER-REVOLT By Telegraph—Fress Association—Copyright (Received March 28, >5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 27 A message from Brunswick, capital of the State of that name, says that Nazi auxiliaries raided the Steel Helmets organisation's guard house, disarmed its auxiliary police and arrested several leaders and others on suspicion of a counterrevolutionary plot. Also they the names of hundreds of civilians. Herr Klagges, Nazi Minister of the Interior in Brunswick, alleges that the Steel Helmets recently enrolled members of the Reichsbanner and other forbidden organI isations. He adds: "To-day the moveI merit has assumed a mass character. I Hundreds of former members of the j Reichsbanner, Socialists and Communists | marched to the guard house, protected by i Steel Helmet auxiliaries, amid continuous shouts of ' hail the freedom front,' ' hail the Red front.' " Excited crowds of Communists and | Socialists in the vicinity of the guard house shouted menaces against Herr Hitler and the Nazis. Moreover, with the Steel Helmets' toleration a Communist leader named Nob, who for weeks bad been iu hiding, ventured from his refuge and took part in the threats of the Steel Helmets and also maltreated young Nazis."