NAZI CONGRESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21586, 2 September 1933, Page 11

NAZI CONGRESS

HUGE GATHERING NUREMBURG CROWDED 1 REBUFF FOR WOMEN CONVENTION CANCELLED HITLER'S DISAPPROVAL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received September 1, 7.55 p.m.) NUREMBURG. Sept. 1 It was reckoned on Wednesday that there wero 350,000 visitors in Nuretuburg for the Nazi Congress. Yesterday 400 special trains arrived, bringing thousands more. Already 450,000 tickets have been sold lor the fireworks display to be held to-morrow evening. licrr Hitler spent yesterday in private consultation with the party chiefs. This greatly disappointed the women of the city, who had expected him to address their convention. Both the convention and the speech wero cancelled without explanation, however. It is understood that Herr Hitler did not approve of the convention, his policy being that women's place is at home. The Hitler Youths now number 3,000,000, aged from 12 to 18. At 18 they become storm troopers. ANOTHER BROADCAST ANTI-AUSTRIAN SPEECH NAZI LEADER'S ATTACK (Received September 1, 7.55 p.m.) MUNICH. Sept, 1 Herr Knaus, so-called Nazi leader for Styria, in a broadcast speech, said Austrian soldiers who were crossing the frontier were not deserters but true loyalists. He attempted to raise an inflation scare and predicted the imminent fall of the Dollfuss. regime. ESCAPE FROM AUSTRIA NAZI LEADER IN ITALY EXTRADITION NOT EXPECTED ROME, Aug. 31 Herr Franz Hofer, the Nazi leader who was rescued from gaol at Innsbruck as the result of a raid by Austrian Nazis, and against whom Austria closed the Tvroleso frontier, crossed into Italy at Bolzano, where he begged the police not to send him back to inevitable death in Austria. The matter is now in the hands of the Italian Prime Minister, Signor Mussolini. Bloodstains on the car wero explained by n. report that Herr Hofer was wounded in his flight. Ho will not bo extradited as long as he refrains from propaganda. A message from Berlin states that Herr Hofer will not be prevented from returning to Germany if he desires - to ! do so. MARIENBAD MURDER A MISSING SUSPECT GERMAN REFUGEES' FEAR PRAGUE, Aug. .31 Dr. Theodor Lessing, who was murdered in his home at Marienbad yesterday, recently lectured in Czechoslovakia on the question of the Jews in Germany. A taxi-driver has been arrested in connection "with the crime, but suspicion falls on a German-born poacher, Max Ecker, who has fled.

Tho murder is alarming a big colony of German refugees in Czecho-Slovakia, who fear that more crimes of the sort will bo committed. EVENTS IN GERMANY BRITISH LABOUR FEELING DEPUTATION TO MINISTER British Wireless RUGBY. Auk. 31 Tho Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, to-day. received a deputation from the Independent Labour Party, headed by Mr. James Maxton. The deputation expressed the intense feeling among tho working class in regard to tho treatment of certain people under tho present regime in Germany. Mr. Maxtou says tho Foreign Secretary assured tho deputation that the British Government was watching the happenings in Germany with the closest attention. The General Council of tho Trades Union Congress adopted Mr. Walter | Citrine's report on dictatorships in i trades unionism, especially emphasising tho events in Europe culminating in Herr Hitler's "brutal attack on trades unionism." Mr. Citrine focussed attention on the menace of dictatorships, and declared that Fascism in Britain, although apparently it is not materially increasing, must bo ruthlessly exposed. There is a widespread suspicion that, like that of tho Nazis, tho British movement is financed by industrialists. If this is so, such people are considered to be playing with fire. The report, presumably referring to tho quarrels within British labour, says the unions will welcome any improvement in tho Parliamentary scheme that will not encroach on public liberties, but they will resist any attempt to supersede Parliament or undermine its democratic working. PREMIER OF PRUSSIA MILITARY PROMOTION BERLIN, Aug. 31 Tho President, Marshal von Hindenburg, has appointed Captain Goering, Premier of Prussia, a general in the Reichswehr, in recognition of his services in the liberation of Germany.

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