POLITICAL CHAOS

Southland Times, Issue 21949, 25 February 1933, Page 5

POLITICAL CHAOS

GERMAN SITUATION A REIGN OF TERROR DEVELOPING PRINCESS HERMINE IN BERLIN (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, February 23. The Daily Herald says that Mr Walter Citrine, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who has just returned from Berlin, states that Germany is moving rapidly to a reign of terror. Herr Hitler is using shootings, imprisonment and intimidation, threatening the destruction of all pretence of political liberty, while the militarist caste is aiming at power by allowing shootings and common deaths of opponents of the Nazis to go unpunished. Over one hundred murders of Socialists have taken place since Herr Hitler took office. General Goering has instructed the police to drastically combat “subversive” organizations, including Socialists, trade unionists and Communists. NEWSPAPERS’ APPEAL SUCCEEDS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.20 p.m.) Berlin, February 23. The Supreme Court has decided in favour of fourteen newspapers which appealed against the recent suspensions. The special Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express states that the exKaiser’s wife, who is on a week’s visit to Berlin, saw Herr von Papen, who is said to have assured Princess Hermine that he was doing everything in his power to bring the ex-Kaiser back.

Later she met Herr Hitler at a dinner party. He is said to have declared that as much as he respected the house of Hohenzollern and revered their deeds on behalf of the Fatherland, he felt the time for the restoration of the ex-Kaiser vzas not ripe.