NAZIS’ PREDOMINANCE

Taranaki Daily News, 13 March 1933, Page 7

NAZIS’ PREDOMINANCE

CAMPAIGN IN ALL STATES MANY ACTS DP VIOLENCE \ ' | im jxn;‘CLEANSING STAGE OF. DIRT’ Berlin, March 10. The Governments of Saxony and Baden have resigned. Herr von Killinger, on behalf of the Reich,• has placed Nazis in charge of the Saxon ministries. A new Government is being formed at Baden. Those of Bavaria and Saxony will be reformed without elections on a basis of Sunday’s vote, giving Nazis predominance everywhere. The police have dispersed Brown Shirts picketing Jewish shops. The Mayors of two Berlin suburbs and other officials have been arrested. Three men were found shot at Wansee. Twfc Communists were killed at Lunback in attempting to escape. Austrians and Czechs seeking visas bear traces of beatings. Many Jews have left Germany and others are departing. The Upper Silesian Catholic Press has been suppressed. The manager of a Breslau theatre was dragged to a forest where . Nazis beat him until he was rescued by the police. The Nazis declare their intention of cleansing the stage of “dirt and rubbish” and are replacing theatre managers.

The Bavarian Minister Stuetzel Scaefer, chairman of the People’s Party, and Ostermeyen, a councillor, were dragged from their homes at night and .maltreated.

General von Epp’s orders to arrest Communists and Socialists in several Bavarian towns were strictly executed. A Paris message states that French and British official . circles regard the enrolment ,of Stahlhelms and Storm Troops as police as a breach of the Versailles Treaty, necessitating diplomatic representations. A Madrid message reports that police dispersed hundreds of students and Communist agitators marching to the German Embassy, crying: “Death to Hitler, down with .Fascism.” ANGLO-FRENCH DISCUSSIONS - BRITISH MINISTERS VISIT PARIS. EUROPEAN ARMAMENT DEADLOCK. British Wireless. Rugby, March 10. Conversations between the British and French Ministers, took place at Paris yesterday. At their conclusion a communique was issued by the Foreign Office in London as follows: — “The Prime Minister and Sir John Simon spent the night at the British Embassy on the way to Geneva. They were very glad to avail themselves of the opportunity of renewing relations with the President of the Council and M. Boncour, with whom they exchanged views upon the main economic and political questions now calling for attention. The urgency of the Geneva problems, especially in relation to the actual European situation, is fully recognised, and the Ministers declared' themselves determined to seek, in agreement with the representatives of other States, all the means of safeguarding the. peace of the world.” The discussion on land armaments at Geneva ended in a deadlock on the Franco-German viewpoints. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will find complete antagonism between them on almost every issue. ■ ■ - ■ Mr. Arthur Henderson, president of ths conference, urges a general manifestation of goodwill in the coming debate.