GERMAN AFFAIRS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22025, 7 August 1933, Page 7

GERMAN AFFAIRS

THREAT OF COMMUNISM

STRONG REPRESSIVE METHODS

FAR-REACHING PUNISHMENT

(United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

BERLIN, August 4,

In addition to the decision throughout Germany to seize Communist hostages for anti-German offences committed by Communists abroad, the Hamburg Nazi leaders are also visiting such sins upon Communists in the concentration camps—for example, solitary confinement, no blankets, bread and water diet. If it is known that offenders are beyond reach their families will be arrested.

DRASTIC ACTION

USE OF FIREARMS IF NECESSARY.

BERLIN, August 5. (Received August 6, at 5.5 p.m.) The Nazis announce that persons distributing pamphlets and leaflets against the Government are liable to be shot by the police or the Brown Shirts without trial.

The Prefect of. Police has ordered force to nip in the bud, if necessary by the ruthless use of firearms, every attempt by the Communist elements to circulate propaganda.

GERMAN CORRESPONDENT ’ IMPRISONED

VIENNA, August 6. (Received August 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Herr Franzriedel, correspondent of Germania, has been sentenced summarily to 14 days’ imprisonment in connection with an article allegedly insulting the Austrian Government.

RETALIATION AGAINST AUSTRIA

BERLIN, August 5. (Received August 6, at 5.5 p.m.) The secret police arrested a number of Austrians, 20 of whom were ordered to leave the country, in retaliation against the arrest of five German newspaper representatives in Austria for sending articles to their papers attacking the Austrian Government.

EVANGELICAL BISHOP OF PRUSSIA BERLIN, August 5. (Received August 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Dr Mueller, Herr Hitler’s friend and adviser on church affairs, has been appointed evangelical Bishop of Prussia,

MORE ARRESTS

BERLIN, August 5.

(Received August 6, at 8 p.m.) Three hundred additional Communists have been arrested and sent to concentration camps. The Silesian police announce the discovery of a revolutionary plot at Schmideberg. A Communist at Darmstadt has been sentenced to decapitation following on a disturbance in which a Nazi was killed.

GERMAN CONSULATE TYPIST DISMISSED CAPETOWN, August 5. (Received August 6, at 7 p.m.) A German-born Jewess typist at the German Consulate at Johannesburg has been dismissed owing to her failure to comply with any of the conditions prescribed at Berlin.

REGRETTABLE INCIDENTS ANGLO-FRENCH NOTES TO GERMAN GOVERNMENT. LONDON, August 5. (Received August 6, at 7 p.m.) The Anglo-French Embassies at Berlin have been instructed to hand the German Government identical Notes. They are friendly in tone and consist only of three paragraphs, citing the Four-Power Pact, article 10 of the League Covenant, and article 80 of the Treaty, emphasising the regrettable effect of Germany’s wireless propaganda and aerial dropping of leaflets in Austria.