MILITARY DISPLAY.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 5

MILITARY DISPLAY.

MOURNING FOR WAR DEAD IN BERLIN. VON HINDENBURG AND HITLER TAKE SALUTE. CHANCELLOR PROHIBITS LAWLESSNESS. BERLIN, March 12. Cheers, drowning the tolling of bells, greeted President Hindenburg and his Ministers as they drove amid military pageantry to attend the national mourning service to the war dead at the Opera House. President Hindenburg, with Herr Hitler on his left, and the War Minister (Herr Blomberg) ■on his right, occupied with the other Ministers the- exImperial box. He raised his Marshal’s baton to greet the assembly. Tho Reichswehr, Nazis and Stahlhelms lined the stage, which was flanked with regimental colours. President Hindenburg and Herr Hitler later took the salute in the Opera House Square, under the Swastika emblem, which is now flying in full equality with the newly-restored Imperial banner. Herr Hitler reiterated his prohibition against lawlessness, declaring that overwhelming victory did not demand petty revenges. Unknown assassins killed Herr Spiegel, an eminent Socialist solicitor at Keil, obtaining admission to his home at 2 o’clock in the morning by shouting, “Police, open.” They fired several shots, and Spiegel died in hospital.

Jews who have left Germany include Theodor Wolff, editor of the “Tageblatt,” George Cernhard, exeditor of the “Vossische Zeitung, ” Oscar Cohn, ex-Soeialist Deputy, and Weiss, ex-Superintendent of Police.

MINIATURE COUPS.

SELF-APPOINTED LOCAL DICTATORS. ACTION TAKEN AGAINST JEWS AND COMMUNISTS. 'BERLIN, March 12. Following the general seizure of power individual Nazis have begun unauthorised miniature coups, notably one Strichler who proclaimed himself Commissioner of North Bavaria and marched' to Nuremberg at the head of Storm Troops, causing the Steel Hlmets to make a strong protest to the Government. A Nazi appointed himself Lord Mayor of Altona and arrested four Senators and several officials. Storm Troops occupied the Breslau exchange and suspended business. They also invaded the law Courts and expelled Jewish judges and lawyers, i There were numerous similar arrests of Mayors in many towns and another hundred political arrests in Berlin where it is now disclosed that a number of Jews and Communists, arrested in the early days of Hitler’s rule, were manhandled gnd confined to a dark cellar, almost foodless. To-day they were taken to the police station. The police at Hamburg closed big stores, including Woolworth’s “in the interests of public security.” Auxiliaries in Wurttemberg throughout the night arrested Communists who were dragged from their beds and taken to unknown destinations. Two hundred Communist officials were arrested in Stuttgart. Communists have not been invited to the opening of the Reichstag on March 21. If they attend they will be arrested.

MUNICIPAL POLLS. NAZIS AND NATIONALISTS VICTORIOUS. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) . BERLIN, March 13. Ine Nazis and Nationalists were victonous at the municipal elections. (An earlier message stated that the nthni Cl <w 1 e elect: ° ns in Prussia and other States were quietly conducted A Berlin citizen dropped dead while votP° l,ln s was much lighter than on March 4 because the Nazi preaa” Inailc e made a constitutional mandate superfluous.) HOSTILITY in SPAIN Tl. - MADRID', March 12. lhe pohch disperse?! hundreds of tho dentS and Com munist agitators as they were marching to the German Embassy, crying: “Death to Hitler" Down with Fascism.” Hitler! PLEA FOR GERMANY. LLOYD GEORGE’S WARNING. ii * LONDON, March 12 As one of the drafters . clauses It was our /? Barma ment suit," declared Mr risen annu’ally thT^” 8 ”* 8 5 &Ve kept down. A proud BrtS ", havo not stand that P evX t i„X PeOP k e n WiII quently, Germany has TipptT a • onse ‘ an aggressive military dictators)/ 0 “n g t T- Orld P ° aCfi Zd fa ‘ a > " AMERICAN ARRESTED. man/ri 10 "^' 80 many m the eyes of America.” STATE OF TERRORISM. unknown OUTCOME AWAITED. NATIONALISTS CHECKMATED, ' Th a •! -LfONDON, March 12 correspondent, y who < ’h e f, raP ’ 1 ’V ’ B P ecia l after an extended tour 'of says that the countrv i, r ? erman y> state of terrorism kt in a what the outcome will r k 'v° WS the Hitlerites rr a least of all ler-von Pap e ea ’ Go±±’ >tpd ' y tbe tanlt of a s^amper™™^' I ' BB oral von Schleicher w° a Gon ’ eoup d’etat. Now the P ,an '”ng a ff Werg lUo« P f rai ho th V “, n / a pushed aside by the Brown Shirts. The

Nationalists' plan of checking Hitler by holding the key positions in Cabinet has been effectively quashed by the fire in the Reichstag. They are now satisfied that Captain Goering arranged the outbreak in order to capture the wavering Reichstag votes for Hitlerism. No responsible person in Germany believes that the Communists caused the fire.

“The Times" Berlin correspondent says: After hearing a dozen shots a night-watchman at Spandau found tho blind-folded and bare-footed body of a murdered man. Six unknown persons shot a factory worker at Neukolln and drove away in a car.