GERMAN GOVERNMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21941, 1 May 1933, Page 9

GERMAN GOVERNMENT

NAZIS AND NATIONALISTS POSSIBILITY OF AGREEMENT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, April 28. Herr Seklte, in announcing his decision to join the Nazis, said lie regarded Herr Hitler not. only as the leader of the Nationalist revolution, but as leader of Germany’s future. The Stahlhelms must give him their hearts and confidence. There were no longer difficulties, only one great unity. Herr Hitler lias appointed Herr Rudolf Hess, a Nazi member of the Reichstag, his deputy in the leadership of the party organisation. The possibility of an agreement between the Nazis and the Nationalists is indicated in the arrangement, under which Herr Hugepberg will retain the position of Minister of Commerce in the Prussian Government, hutwill not be a member of Cabinet. The fusion of the Nazis and Stahlhelms virtually completes Herr Hitler’s grip on Germany. PROFESSOR COMMITS SUICIDE. BERLIN, April 28. Herr Jacobsen (Jewish professor of Indo-Germanic languages at Marburg University) committed suicide under a train, following his compulsory retirement, SEARCH FOR WEAPONS. . DUTIES OF THE POLICE. BERLIN, April 28. One thousand police and Brown Shirts raided the Western Berlin area and searched hundreds of houses and all pedestrians. It is reported that many weapons and compromising documents ■were discovered. Germany has constituted an 0.G.P.U.,” similar to the Russian organisation, separating the Prussian political police from the regular force. The concentrated secret department will be entrusted with combating Bolshevism and subversive movements, and will be manned by picked men dominating the ordinary police and supervising the press. ARREST OF COMMUNISTS. EFFECTIVE POLICE DRIVE. COLOGNE, April 29. (Received April 30, at 6.30 p.m.) . As the result of a police drive 80 Communists were (Treated for allegedly organising a counter-revolutionany movement, and 100 military rifles were seized. A Communist who jumped from a second storey window was killed.