BELLICOSE GERMANS.

Wairarapa Age, 20 June 1932, Page 5

BELLICOSE GERMANS.

FORMATION OF NEW ROYALIST PARTY. RESTORATION OF .MONARCHY SOUGHT. RETURN OF COLONIES DEMANDED (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, June 18. A new German Royalist party, styled the Social Monarchist Party, is plastering the walls of German cities with the appeal: “With God for Germany’s freedom for Kaiser and Empire. ’ ’ The party will make the monarchy the main question at the coming election. It is also demanding the abolition of the Versailles Treaty and the return of the former German colonies. The party favours universal military training and its organisers, Captains Krazt and Hausler, are confident of success. BAVARIAN DIET. NAZI DEPUTIES DEMONSTRATE! IN UNIFORM. BERLIN, June 18. At the reassembly of the Bavarian Diet at Munich, 42 Nazi deputies entered uniformed and refused to withdraw, singing and cheering for Hitler. The sitting was suspended and the offenders were removed. The Cabinet has now banned uniforms throughout Bavaria until September 30.‘ SERIOUS DISORDERS. RIOTING AND STREET BATTLES. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) COLOGNE, June 18. Forty were injured, many seriously, in a street battle between Communists and Nazis at Birkesdorf. Communists stoned Nazis at a meeting. Nazi reinforcements arrived and engaged in a fierce fight. There was serious rioting at Herne, where fifty were injured. The Communist, Councillor Kuhn, was stabbed eight times and beaten with iron bars and is in a critical condition. A policeman and a civilian were killed in a street fight between the police and Communists at Hamburg.