AMAZING COUP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21554, 27 July 1933, Page 9

AMAZING COUP

NAZIS IN GERMANY HOLD-UP OF TRAFFIC biggest in history travellers searched intense excitement JJy Teiepmvh—Pros* Association—Copyright (Received July 20. 5.5 p.m.) / LONDOX, July CO Despatches from Berlin state that one of the greatest traffic stoppages in history lasted -10 minutes from noon yesterday in the cities of Germany. Tbo police ordered all traffic on the main pailway lines and motor roads to halt in order that trains and other vehicles might ho searched. Tho action was taken in the hope of catching numerous foreign and German Radicals for whom the police have been searching for a long time. Tho official explanation of the holdup of travellers is that the anti-Govern-ment machinations of the Communists are still evident everywhere and that couriers of organisations hostile to the State aro moving about freely. No details of the people arrested were issued, but tho number is believed to he considerable. Tho Berlin correspondent of the News Chronicle says the Nazis effected the hold-up without a hitch. Hundreds of' thousands of motor-cars and 1000 trains were stopped on tho stroke of noon.' They were allowed to proceed agaip punctually at 32.40 p.m. In the meanwhile tho occupants had heen compelled to leave tho vehicles and submit to an inspection of their letters and other personal documents. Fashionable women riding in taxis •were indignant when they were forced to disclose tho contents of their handbags and submit to a perusal of their correspondence. Tho search was extremely thorough. Mat's and cushions were removed from all vehicles, panelling was unscrewed, mechanical parts were inspected, and even spare tyres were opened in search of subversive literature. I Unprecedented traffic jams occurred in tha large cities. Thousands of excited people were imprisoned in railway stations until the police, assisted by an army of Brown Shirts, had examined all their luggage. At Stuttgart tho police arrested 200 people becauso it was suspected that they yintended to circulate prohibited pamplilets and create disorder. At an athletic festival at Breslau the police had a duel with revolvers with Communists who were affixing posters to walls. The Communists were arrested. POLICE SATISFIED

SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE PERSONS WHO WERE WANTED (Received July 2G, 11.5 p.m.) BERLIN, July 2G The Berlin police describe yesterday's transport search as a satisfactory success.' Several persons for whose arrest warrants were held were caught with new baggage, which revealed some forbidden written material. Numerous arrests were made for the illegal carrying of arms. PERSECUTED JEWS EXODUS FROM GERMANY SEEKING HOMES ELSEWHERE / (Received July 2G. 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 2<<

The Daily Herald says undiminished Nazi persecution is likely to lead to a new exodus of Jews from Germany. One hundred thousand already have loft and 400,000 would do so if they possessed the means. , Settlement in Palestine in the present conditions is costly and iimpracticable. Influential Jews have approached the Governments of Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and Persia and asked them to facilitate settlement. Persia would welcome technicians and Turkey is willing to admit professional and trade experts. EX-KAISER'S WEALTH / ESTIMATE OF £35,000,000 ADMINISTRATORS' DENIAL / BERLIN, July 23 Tim cx-Kaiser, it is reported, still heads the dwindling list of German millionaires. The latest tax figures assess his fortune at £35,000,000. j However, the administrators of tho House of Hohenzollern indignantly deny this estimate. Wilhelni's wealth is stated to be less than one-tenth of the figure mentioned,, and from that 17 princely households must bo maintained.