NAZI VIOLENCE

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1933, Page 5

NAZI VIOLENCE

TROOPS SEIZE CONTROL OPPOSITION SUPPRESSED i AT#,« STATES SUBJUGATED AUTHORITIES GALE HALT TROUBLE IN RHINELAND By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Rec. 10 pan. Berlin, March 10. Continual Nazi outrages have caused the authorities to call a halt in irresponsible outbursts and restore normality, although it is doubtful when discipline can be reimposed. To-day’s shootings and raidings at Brunswick included the murder of a trades Unionist when the premises were seized and the murder of the publisher of a Socialist newspaper at Chemnitz. The Nazis have now seized power in such States as W’ere not already under control. Bavaria, Baden, Murtemburg and Saxony, four of the greatest States after Prussia, were dominated by the stroke of a pen. Only control of the Reichswehr is lacking to make Germany a completely Hitlerite State. While the police looked on Nazis at Chemnitz arrested judges and high officials and insultingly harangued the Mayor of Coblenz. Captain Offermann, in charge of the Customs House at Kehl bridge, and 500 Storm Troops occupied the station and disused barracks on the right bank of the Rhine opposite Strasburg and hoisted the swastika. The incident is regarded as serious because Kehl is within the demilitarised zone of the Rhineland. The French bridge guard has been reinforced. Nazis maltreated Madgeburg hotel guests, smashed furniture and attacked the Peruvian consul at Bremen. Fifteen Storm Troopers marched to the Berlin Bourse and demanded that the Board of Control should immediately resign. The board unanimously refused, declaring that it would only accept orders from a supreme authority. Most of the shares subsequently fell. MASTERY OF MUNICH. At Munich Captain Roehm, Herr Hitler’s chief of staff, escorted by Storm Troops, presented the Bavarian Premier, Herr Held, with an ultimatum demanding the appointment of a State Commissioner. Cabinet was hastily assembled. In the meantime the Nazi General von Epp arrived by aeroplane from Berlin with an order in his pocket appointing him Commissioner. Cheering Storm Troopers welcomed him at the aerodrome. The Cabinet, fearing a demonstration, resigned, leaving General von Epp in control pending a new Government, in which Nazis will predominate. By midnight the Nazis were masters of Munich. Storm Troops occupied the Bavarian Parliament after resistance by the police, who for long tried to prevent the hoisting of the swastika. The excite-

ment was unabated at a late hour. Troops paraded the streets, followed by crowds. A great Nazi victory demonstration was held in the Odeonsplatz, where General von Epp declared they had come to ensure the maintenance of law and order. He asked the people’s support The scene was illuminated by searchlights and torches. The Nazis broke into the trade union building in Berlin and wrecked the offices.

Many reports are being received that the Nazis are torturing the Communists, forcing them to swallow castor oil and thrashing them with steel rods, after which they are taken to prisons and infirmaries.

Herr Frick, Minister of the Interior, at a Nazi meeting' declared: “Communist deputies will not be allowed to attend the Reichstag but will be interned in concentration camps where they will do more useful work than in Parliament”