NO OPPOSITION CANDIDATES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19623, 18 October 1933, Page 7

NO OPPOSITION CANDIDATES

ONLY NAZIS TO STAND FOR ELECTION MINISTERIAL ATTEMPT TO BLUFF THE PRESS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 17, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 16. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” reports that no opposition candidates will be tolerated at the elections, so says a government statement. Voting papers will mention only Nazi Party, with a circle printed alongside in which the voters must make a cross; otherwise the papers will be invalid. It will thus be impossible to vote against the Nazis. It will only be possible to abstain from voting, or spoil the paper. Dope For Foreign Press. Captain Goebbels assured the foreign newspapermen, that the election referendum would be absolutely free. Strict democracy would be observed. The German newspapers have been officially warned not to indulge in violent attacks on Britain, but confine their necessary hostile comments to individual ministers. “Germany,” says Captain Goebbels, "would harbour no territorial grievances against France, when the Saar was returned.” Captain Goebbels said that no central European problem jus'll fled war. Nevertheless the Polish Corridor could not be permanent. Germany would not rest until ,she recovered it, preferably by negotiation. SIGNIFICANT ACTION. PENALTIES FOR ASSAULTING FOREIGNERS. United Press Association—By Electro Telegraph—Copyright (Received October 17, 11.30 p.m.) BERLIN, October 17. The German public at last is being informed that the Nazi Brown Shirts are being punished for assaulting foreigners. An official announcement reads: “Four Brown Shirts, who took part in excesses against the Swiss subject (Ruegg) and the Englishman (Hardy) who is a member of the British Embassy in Berlin, have been sent to a concentration camp. Those guilty of the maltreating of the American (Boelg) at Dusseldorf have been arrested and will be tried.”