GERMAN LEADERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 11

GERMAN LEADERS

PROBABILITY OF RUPTURE. NATIONALIST RISING FEARED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, April 29. (Received April 30, at 0.5 a.m.) A Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express asks, “ Is Germany on the eve of a Nationalist rising?” He says that German Republicans are anxiously asking one another this question. Reports of a concentration in Bavaria of Nationalist semi-military associations of so-called Steel Helmets and Hittler Fascists is causing apprehension. Moreover , diplomatists detect a rupture between Dr Stresemann and the Nationalist, Dr Schaeht, who some Republicans consider has undone Dr Stresemahn’s five years’ work of international reconciliation in order to produce a national crisis, , which Herr Hugenberg, the would-be Nationalist dictator, may cxploit. . Dr Stresemann is too ill to meet the situation, and the general nervousness is increased by the soldierly appearance of young uniformed Fascists in Berlin with black death’s head caps going off to Bavaria to meetings of Nationalist associations. They will undergo semimilitary exercises. The newspaper, Meunchener Post, discussing the gather* “It almost looks as if we are on the verge of civil war.”—Australian J. ress Association.