GERMAN COMMUNISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21909, 22 March 1933, Page 7

GERMAN COMMUNISTS

PLOT AGAINST HERR HITLER DISCOVERY BY POLICE (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MUNICH, March 20. The police announce the discovery of a plot to assassinate Herr Hitler, which was averted through the watchfulness of the population and the promptitude ot the authorities. It is alleged that Swiss messages recently disclosed that the Communists were planning assaults on Herr Hitler and other leaders. To-day three so-called Chckists arrived by car and deposited three hand grenades and ammunition near the Wagner statue, in the vicinity of Herr Hitler’s residence, with a view to attacking the Chancellor as he was motoring past. Bystanders summoned the police, and the Chekists vanished. The police president declared that a single shot would have caused chaos. HERR HITLER’S POWERS “BLANK CHEQUE TO GOVERN.” LONDON, March 20. (Received March 21, at 8 p.m.) The Berlin correspondent of the Times states that the Enablement Bill, which Herr Hitler intends to demand from the Reichstag, gives him a blank cheque to govern for four years, subject to inter-/ vention by the President, whose rights, including dismissal of the Government, are expressly not touched. One article authorises the Chancellor to draw up laws which will take force the day after their promulgation. Henceforth . Herr Hitler’s signature will .suffice for the laws of the Reich, instead of the President’s, and Parliament is excluded from legislative work unless the Government'invites co-operation.—Times Cable. POTSDAM BEFLAGGED OPENING OF REICHSTAG. BERLIN, March 21. (Received March 21, at 11 p.m.) Potsdam is beflagged in readiness for the opening of the Reichstag in obedience to Herr Goebbel’s appeal to the populace to display flags as proof that Germany has been reborn out of shame and humiliation. President Hindenburg has issued the following manifesto:—“Germany’s wartime sacrifices of health and life were not in vain. Out of her collapse Germany is again struggling upwards to national strength. A powerful Reich shall be a proud and permanent monument to those who fought and fell for the Fatherland.” A famous west end street was to-day renamed Adolf Hitler Platz, and a new suspension bridge was named after admiral Schecr, who was in command at the Jutland fight. How extensive is the round-up of Communists is shown by the creation of a concentration camp at Dachau to accommodate 5000 political prisoners. SPEECHES BY LEADERS POTSDAM, March 21. (Received March 22, at 2 a.m.) Through beflagged and garlanded streets, heavily guarded by troops, President Hindenburg and Herr Hitler, heading a triumphal procession of saloon cars, arrived to inaugurate the Reichstag. Everywhere there were striking slogans. President Hindenburg urged the nation to do everything to assist the Government in its difficult work. “ This place reminds us of the old Prussia. May the spirit of the "lorious scene inspire the present generation and unite us in the consciousness of moral regeneration for a united, free, and proud Germany.” The speech was broadcast everywhere, even to schools. Replying to - President Hindenburg Herr Hitler said: “ Through internal disunion Germany fell a victim to the dark surroundings of the 1918 revolution, which ended a war that neither the Kaiser nor the Government wanted, but which was a fight for Germany’s freedom and the right to live. Since then a succession of crises has unhinged the nation. The world is not richer or happier by the political and economic breakdown of one of its important members, and not until ne .1 and misery struck Germany an inhuman blow did there grow a longing for a new revival, a new Reich, and a new life.”