THE NAZI PARTY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21598, 19 March 1932, Page 11

THE NAZI PARTY

HEADQUARTERS RAIDED HOMES OF LEADERS SEARCHED (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, March 18. (Received March 18, at 10 p.m.) All the Hitlerite local headquarters in Prussia were raided, and the home of many leaders and Nazi officers were searched for documents and arms. Herr Severing, the Minister of the Interior, ordered the raids following the discovery of a plot that if Herr Hitler had been elected on Sunday his private army would have marched on Berlin and seized power immediately on the signal “ Your grandmother is dead, Max,” which would have been issued at Munich and would have set the Hitler force in motion. Proceedings are being taken against the Nazi military advisers for high treason. It is excepted that the Government will issue a decree dissolving the socalled storm troops. DOCUMENTS SEIZED. MUNICH, March 18. (Received March 18, at 11 p.m.) Herr Hitler vigorously protested against the tactics of Herr Severing, the Prussian Minister of the Interior, in ordering the raids. Similar raids are being undertaken at Cologne and other knyns, where many documents have been seized and forwarded to Berlin. The police declare that the raids have shown that the Nazis organised storm troops and planned and supplied transport and armaments for operations lasting for weeks. Herr Hitler contends that the Nazis are victims of deliberate violence and terrorism from their opponents. Forty of his storm troops were killed in the streets recently, and thousands were assaulted and wounded. Consequently instructions had been issued by the leaders at election time, ordering the troops to be prepared in anticipation of attacks. He added that the Minister of the Interior in the Reich approved of the plans a week previously. Herr Severing’s election manoeuvre would not save the Socialists from inevitable defeat on April 24.

THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. POLITICAL TRUCE DECLARED. BERLIN, March 18. (Received March 19, at 0.15 a.m.) President Hindenhurg has proclaimed a political truce during Easter, in which the holding of public meetings and political demonstrations and the issuing of political leaflets and posters arc prohibited.