DRASTIC MEASURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21988, 24 June 1933, Page 11

DRASTIC MEASURES

SOCIALISTS IN GERMANY BANNED BY THE NAZIS (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) BERLIN, June 22. The Government has prohibited the Socialist Party in a manner precisely similar to the banning of the Nazis in Austria. One hundred and twenty Socialist members of the Reichstag, who polled 7,000,000 votes in March, and also members of the Federal Parliaments and municipal councils, have been forbidden to sit, and their salaries have been stopped. Party meetings have been prohibited and newspapers and other publications are barred. Party funds have been confiscated and State employees are forbidden to belong to the party. The Government alleges that the Socialists have committed high treason, and that leaders such as Herr Wells and Herr Breitscheid, have been organising a fight against Hitlerism from Prague. The party, therefore, deserves no better treatment than the Communists. HITLER AND HUGENBERG DIFFERENCES PATCHED UP. BERLIN, June 22. The differences between Herr Hitler and Dr Hugenberg were believed to be temporarily patched up at an interview in which the Chancellor explained the necessity of dissolving the “ Green Shirts.” Dr Hugenberg declined to believe that so many Marxists had entered the ranks. It was agreed to differ on this question. " • ATTEMPT TO ARREST LEADER SON’S DESPERATE ACTS. BERLIN, June 23. (Received June 23, at 7 p.m.) As an example of the desperation to which the constant night raids are driving the Socialists, when six Storm Troopers entered the house of the trade union leader, Johann Schausse, his eon Anton, with the desperate idea of protecting his parents, fired down the stairs, killing two Storm Troopers. Anton then rushed from the house, emptied his revolver at the driver of the Storm Troops’ qjr, but killed his brother-in-law who was being detained in the car. Anton was later hunted down and arrested. His mother was also arrested and his father was found hanged. —Times Cable. TRADE ORGANISATIONS DISBANDMENT ORDERED. BERLIN, June 23. (Received June 23, at 5.5 p.m.) Herr Ley, who is the German workers’ representative at the International Labour Conference, has ordered the disbandment of all Christian trade unions and has prohibited workers’ and employers’ organisations apart from those officially recognised. Herr Ley is also attacking the Catholic and Protestant workers’ associations which are hindering the construction of the German Workers’ Front. He declares: “The revolution is not yet ended. It will take measures against black Catholic reactions, as well as against other types of reaction.” FREEDOM FOR THE CHURCH CATHOLIC REMINDER TO NAZIS. BERLIN, June 22. (Received June 23, at 7.30 p.m.) The Catholic Episcopate, fearing for its own organisations, in which, it is estimated, there arc 1,500,000 young Germans, has issued a statement reminding the Nazi Government of Herr Hitler's promise of freedom to the church and iscogmtion of its educational work.