TENSION IN EUROPE

Southland Times, Issue 22107, 30 August 1933, Page 7

TENSION IN EUROPE

GERMANY’S LOST TERRITORY. RECOVERY MAY BE ATTEMPTED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright-) London, August 28. The Copenhagen correspondent of The Times reports that the growing tension in South Jutland owing to recent Nazi activities in the neighbourhood of the Danish German frontier was strongly emphasized at a private political meeting of all the Danish parties. One speaker declared: “There is a feeling of August, 1914, in the air. Though we do not fear trouble, we believe Germany will attempt to recover her lost territory immediately she feels strong enough to face the opposition of the Powers.” Leading Nazis make no secret that they desire the restoration of the 1864 frontier. German Storm Troopers have marched through the streets of Flensburg singing of a coming reunion of the Tyrol and North Schleswig with the Fatherland. SWISS INDIGNATION FRONTIER RIGHTS VIOLATED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Berne, August 28. The Swiss are intensely indignant at the violation of their frontier rights. A Czechoslovakian named Weber, for allegedly being engaged in smuggling sugar into Germany, was suddenly seized by three Germans while walking in Swiss territory near Ramsen. He was treated with considerable brutality, being tied with ropes and dragged across the frontier, though bleeding badly. A Swiss Customs officer hastened to his rescue, but he was afraid to shoot at the German patrol. The Swiss Government has instructed its Ambassador at Berlin to demand that the perpetrators of the outrage be severely punished. FRONTIER INCIDENT NAZIS INSULT BELGIANS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Paris, August 28. Another frontier outrage has been reported, this time in the village of Bergreuland which is in the portion of Alsace-Lorraine given to Belgium at the end of the war. Four Nazis in uniform crossed the frontier and walked through the streets of Bergreuland insulting any who refused to salute them. Belgian gendarmes were called and they escorted the Nazis across the frontier, but three hours later the Nazis returned when a Nazi with a bottle of beer fractured a gendarme’s skull. The gendarme is now in hospital. One assailant was arrested, but the others escaped. AUSTRIAN NAZIS ESCAPE TO GERMANY. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) London, August 29. The Vienna correspondent of The Times states that 300 specially trained gendarmes are reinforcing the local forces patrolling the Austro-German frontier owing to the large number of Austrian Nazis escaping by secret mountain paths to Germany. Nazis throughout Austria are unabashedly painting swastikas on buildings and churches and threatening the members of Cabinet, despite repeated fines and imprisonment. The Austrian Minister of Defence announces what may be regarded as the reintroduction of conscripts by training relays of 8000 to 10,000 youths for six months alongside regulars.