RHINELAND CRISIS.

Wairarapa Age, 14 March 1933, Page 5

RHINELAND CRISIS.

THE NAZI DEMONSTRATION AT KEHL BARRACKS. AN ULTIMATE WITHDRAWAL. UNEASINESS OCCASIONED. LONDON, March 11. “The Times” Strasbourg correspondent reports that a hundred local Nazis reoccupied, the Kehl barracks. The Leader, in a speech, said that France was now obliged to accord better treatment to Germany than hitherto. • AN EVACUATION. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) BERLIN, March 13. The Nazis finally evacuated Kehl bararcks without further demonstration.—(‘ ‘ Times ” cable.) STRASBOURG’S VIGIL. LOOKING ANXIOUSLY ACROSS THE RHINE. FRENCH FEARS OF GERMAN AGGRESSION. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 13. The “News-Chronicle’s” special correspondent says that Strasbourg city is full of apprehension. The atmosphere recalls that of June, 1914. The French are building steel and concrete emplacements and pill boxes across their end of the Kehl Bridge. They fear that the Nazi temporary occupation of the Kehl barracks was not an irresponsible raid, but part of a test mobilisation and allege that brand new heavy military lorries, the manufacture of which is prohibited in Germany, were recently observed within the demilitarised zone. To-day, a German spy was arrested at Bitsch. The citizens of Strasbourg nightly listen to fiery radio speeches by Hitler, Goering and Goerbels. Refugees from the Nazi terror arrive daily. No wonder Strasbourg looks anxiously across the Rhine.

AT IT AGAIN. NAZIS SEIZE BORDER TOWN. (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) BERLIN, March 13. The Nazis have seized Speyer, on the French border, within the demilitarised zone. Storm troops occupied the Government buildings. The city is seething with excitement. BORDER AFLAME. CRY OF “STRIKE FRANCE.” TENSION EVERYWHERE. (Received Monday, 11,40 p.m) LONDON, March 13. The “Daily Express” special correspondent at Strasbourg says that the whole Franco-German border is aflame. At the frontier, town of Weibrueken, Frenchmen watched Nazis overthrow statues of the founders of the German Republic and heard their war cry “Strike France.” The French, however, are on the qui vive. There is tension all along the line.