NAZIS' PLANS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21548, 20 July 1933, Page 11

NAZIS' PLANS

EYES ON AUSTRIA A FRESH OFFENSIVE / 'AUTHORITIES' FEARS 'ARREST OF A PRINCE HIGH TREASON CHARGE By Telegraph—Tress Assnrinfinn—Copyriebt I Received July If), 8.-!5 p.m.) VIENNA, July in The Austrian official organ, Wiener Zeitung< confirms the report that the German Nazis are preparing a fresh offensive against Austria. The newspaper asserts that at n conference held in Venice for this purpose jfc was Stated that the Chancellor, Herr .'Hitler, was determined to see National Socialism established in Austria. The fears of the Austrian authorities nre refloated in instructions given to the police to arrest the Prince of Saxe--Menningen 011 a charge of high treason, based "on his alleged attendance at secret meetings of Nazis on tho Italian side of tho frontier. Germany is expelling Austrian miners from Westphalia and Austria is expelling an equivalent number of Germans. A recent cablegram stated: The Nazis' struggle for Austria will relentlessly continue until it is successful, according to an offici/il statement, issued 011 behalf of Herr Hitler, says the Berlin correspondent of the Times. The Nazis, it is declared, will not be influenced by the oft-expressed desire of certain persons in Austria for cooperation with Britain which, according to the statement of the British Foreign Minister, Sir John Simon, in tho House of Commons, hopes to assist Austria. Nazis think that Germany will eventually stand alone, and meanwhile is placating foreign opinion regarding' equality of armaments. They declare that the sacrifices of the Austrian Nazis will bo endurable only if Germany is loyal to them. EXILED SOCIALIST TRAGEDIES OF LIFE FAMILY'S SAD FATE ■ // (Received July 19, 6.5 p.m.) . /> VIENNA. July 19 Hen: Philip Schiedemann, a former ■prominent Socialist statesman in Germany, has informed the German Social Democrat Party that ho is now living in Prague. An article which resulted in his, family being interned was a he says. Political intrigues led to the fatal attack of. apoplexy suffered by his wife in 1926, says Herr Schiedemann. His eldest daughter and her husband were victims of mob intrigue and committed suicide after 20 years of happy married life. " The Government has confiscated my State 4nd Printers' Union pensions and my Parliamentary salary," says Herr Schiedemann, " but although Berlin otfers me the choice between the guillotine and suicide I shall be present when the Day of Judgment comes." REMOVAL OF BANS PICTURES OF EX-KAISER NEWSPAPER TO REAPPEAR (Received July 19, 8.45 p.m.) BERLIN, July 19 The Prussian Ministry of the Interior has sanctioned the reintroduction in official municipal buildings of pictures, busts and statues of the ex-Kaiser and other members of the Hohenzollern family, which former Governments banned. The ban imposed on the Deutsche Zeitung f<jr stating that General Balbo, Italian Air Minister, was baptised a Jew, has been removed following an abject apology and the replacement of the Editor, who was a war veteran, by an acceptable successor. The secret police have blocked operation'on the bank account of the Jewish Welfare Society, consisting of £5700 made up of British and American subscriptions for distressed Jews. GERMAN CITIZENSHIP / 7 NEW NAZI EDICT (Received July 19. 5.25 p.m.) BERLIN. July 18 An /inspired announcement in the press says German citizenship is to bo made dependent upon membership of some Nazi organisation. The Nazi Partyfs trade union at present is closed to new members. HITLER'S ORIGIN CONTROVERSY STARTED / VIENNA PAPER'S CAMPAIGN LONDON, July 12 The publication of a series of articles purporting to show that Herr Adolf Hitler, is partly Jewish has been begun by the Oesterreicher Abendblatt, says the Vienna correspondent of the l imes. The allegation will be supported by extracts from parish registers, and is tho result of diligent research. It is stated that Hitler's maternal grandmother, Johanna, was a daughter of ,I;ikob Hitler, who left tho ghetto of the Bohemian border town of Polna iu 1833, and was baptised in Vienna. The' burgomaster of Herr Hitler's birthplace, Braunau, certifies that the Chancellor's father changed his name from Schicklgruber to Hitler in 1877 in expectancy of a legacy from Adoll s grout aunt, Klara. The paper prints corroborative photographs of the ancestral home at Polna, of a, page from the parish register, and of a Hebrew tombstone. The/ Abendblatt promises to publish the evidence of a Jewish relative of Herr Hitler who is a small grocer in the Jewish quarter of Vienna. The Berlin newspaper Vossische Zeitung, m contradicting the Abendblatt's allegations, cites a statement by a genealogical scholar —Karl von Frank --that 011 both sides of his family, even further , back than his great-grand parents, Herr Hitler's ancestors were Austrjan peasants.