STRUGGLE FOR AUSTRIA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21540, 11 July 1933, Page 9

STRUGGLE FOR AUSTRIA

HITLER'S OBJECTIVE DETERMINED TO SUCCEED OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT By Telegraph—Frees Association—Copyright (Received July 10. 5.5 p.m.) Times Cable LONDON, July 10 The Berlin correspondent of tho Times says it is officially stated on behalf of the German Chancellor, Herr Hitler, that the struggle for Austria will bo relentlessly continued until it is successful. Apparently the Nazis will not be influenced by their oft-expressed desire for co-operation with Britain, which, according to Sir John Simon s statements in tho House of Commons, hopes to assist Austria. Representative Nazis think Germany eventually will stand alone. In tho meanwhile they arc placating foreign opinion in regard to equality in armaments. The Nazis declare that tho sacrifices of tho Austrian Nazis can only be borne if Germany is loyal to them.

NEW ERA DAWNS NAZIS' GREAT TASKS FIGHTING UNEMPLOYMENT (Received July 11. 12.25 a.m.) BERLIN. July 10 "The concordat between tho Vatican p-nd Germany and the disappearance of tho Catholic Centre Party signifies the end of the fight for political power," declared Herr Hitler in an address to 70,000 storm troopers at Dortmund. "Stronghold after stronghold we have taken," continued the Chancellor. "There are tasks ahead of us but wo will master thorn., Nobody now will resist us. "Our first task is tho education of each individual German for tho new State. The second is to combat unemployment until it ceases to be a problem. Not only shall be create for Germany's millions the possibility to livo but we shall take from them the faintheartedness which made them despair of the task of life." TRIPLE TRAGEDY STORM TROOPS' VICTIMS SHOCKING METHODS USED (Received July 10, 6.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 10 The Vienna correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph says confirmation has been received of the murder of a Socialist member of tho Reichstag, Herr Johannes Steiling, by Nazi storm troops during a midnight raid upon a workmen's colony at Kropenick where Herr Steiling lived.

The young son of a trades union secretary named Schmans lost his head and shot three of the raiders. The whole colony was searched until Herr Stelling was found. For a week no information as to his fate was available. Then his body was found in the Zerpen Canal sewn "in a . sack. His head had been terribly injured. Young Schmans also was found in the canal, beaten to death. Finally his father's body was found in the canal. Schmans' mother, in the meantimo havgono out of her mind, was sent to a mental hospital. The Nazis' method of beating is to use a steel rod " from the belt downwards." After the beating tho victim is stripped to the waist and shown to a Nazi prison doctor, who smilingly certifies that ho has not been touched.