CHECK TO NAZIS
ELECTION AT DANZIG
CONSTITUTION STANDS
MAJORITY- INSUFFICIENT
NAZI PRESIDENT FLEES
EXCESSES OF CAMPAIGN
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.
Rec. 10 p.m. London, April 8 The Danzig election was a bitter lusionment to the Nazi organisers who stage-managed the election campaign, says the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The Nazi vote of 60.24 per cent, is not sufficient to enable revision of the constitution, 66 2-3 per cent, being required for that purpose. Short of the complete suppression of the opposition parties they had every advantage. The Danzig Government played into their hands and established a Nazi monopoly of electioneering propaganda. No other party except the Poles was allowed even to display banners or exhibit posters. The Nazis are greatly concerned that without outside aid the Socialist Centre Party maintained its representation. No German newspaper is allowed to refer to the Nazi excesses which led to the Polish diplomatic representations. Dr. Rauschning, the Nazi President of Danzig for 17 months until he resigned in November, 1934, has fled, presumably to Poland. It is understood that the Nazis accused him of treachery. The disappearance followed Dr. Goebbels speech on April 6 when he declared that Nazis should ignore Dr. Rauschning, who had committed moral- suicide. Joel Cang, a Polish journalist and correspondent of the Manchester Guardian and News. Chronicle, has been arrested.
The News-Chronicle’s Danzig correspondent says Cang is charged with criminally disseminating false information. He was arrested while telephoning news to London referring to Nazi terrorism. The state of the parties in the Danzig Senate as far aS seats are concerned is:— Nazis J 4 Socialists 12 Catholic Party ~ " Communists 2 German Nationals 2 Polish Party ••• 2
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1935, Page 7
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