GERMAN FLAG RESTORED

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 7

GERMAN FLAG RESTORED

SUPPIRESSION OF REPUBLIC POLISH TROOP MOVEMENT AUSTRIA’S POLITICAL CHAOS By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 11.30 p.m. London, March 12. Herr Hitler has issued orders restoring the old Empire flag as Germany’s emblem. The Republican Reichsbanner organisation throughout Bavaria has been, dissolved and the display of Its flags and badges prohibited. The police confiscated the organisation’s property. Despite the Polish Government’s denials the Oglischer Rundschau,. General Schleicher’s organ, asserts that Polish troops have been concentrated at various points on the border and that there is unusual military activity throughout the Polish Corridor.

Nearly 300 military aeroplanes are assembled in one. aerodrome. A tank unit at Posen has been increased from 35 to 85. Troops and aeroplanes continue to arrive. at Gydnia, while ' Dirchau looks like a war camp. Troop movements are occurring between Gydnia and Preusstchtarg with the object of surrounding Danzig. Several Paris correspondents affirm that Nazi rule in Germany figures largely' in-the discussions between Mr. MacDonald and M. Deladier, who is represented as trying hard but vainly to secure a pledge of British support in the event of trouble. Herr Goering told a Swedish interviewer that Germany would not tolerate the existence of Socialist trade unions. The whole movement would be reconstructed on a national basis as in Italy. Herr Luther is reported as resisting Herr Hitler’s demand to use the Reichsbank’s reserves to finance unemployment schemes. It is rumoured his resignation is imminent. Herr Schacht is mentioned as his successor. BETTER TREATMENT WANTED.

A Strasbourg correspondent reports that 100 local Nazis re-occupied the Kehl barracks. Their leader in a speech said France was now obliged to accord better treatment to Germany than hitherto. A Vienna correspondent states that all political meetings have been prohibited. Mounted and foot police' guard the halls. Dr. Dollfuss, the suspended Chancellor, warned Vice-President Straffner that his effort to convene Parliament might plunge the nation in disaster. The Government would forcibly prevent the session.

Herr Straffner threatens to lodge a charge in the Constitutional Court against anyone impeding the session. Great uneasiness prevails. The Arbeiter Zeitung charges the Government with a breach of the constitution in connection with its defence measures which may unleash civil war, and calls the Socialists to rally against the Government. Edurd Frauenfeld, the Nazi leader in Austria, states that but for the strength of the Nazis Austria would have experienced a Heimwehr (Republican) putsch. The Nazis would resort to illegal means for recognition only if legal means failed.

“We demand a full agreement with Germany and wish to become again Germany’s eastern borderland, perhaps with local autonomy,” he said. “Austria can no longer stand alone with its foreign policy dictated by any other nation. We must take the French and Czechoslovakian annoyance for granted but we intend to remove their influence.”

A Vienna newspaper has declared that if 6,000,000 Bavarian Catholics cannot prevail against the Nazis what hope is there for 1,000,000 Austrians? “Sparks from Danzig may easily start another war conflagration,” declares Dr. Ziehm, President of the Danzig Senate, who is proceeding to Geneva in connection with the Westerplatte dispute. “If the League of Nations fails it will be another blow from which it will be difficult to recover,” he added. POLISH-DANZIG TENSION. LEAGUE ASKED TO INTERVENE. Geneva, March 9. The High Commissioner of Danzig has requested the League of Nations to intervene In the Polish-Danzig situation, being apprehensive of German intentions. Poland has strengthened the Danzig harbour, garrison near Poland’s ammunition depot. The Danzig Senate declares that this violates the Polish-Danzig Treaty,