DRIVEN UNDERGROUND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 178, 31 July 1933, Page 7

DRIVEN UNDERGROUND

"REDS’ IN GERMANY PLOTTING INTENSIFIED ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE NUMEROUS ARRESTS MADE Oy Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) Received July 30, 6.5 p. i. BERLIN, July 29. The police declare that the Communist movement has only been dri .'en underground by the savage repressive measures, and that the “Reds ’ are plotting throughout German} for the overthrow of Herr Hitler, their activities including secret newspapers, the distribution of arms and attacks on Nazis. New Communist cells are discovered almost daily, notably in the Ruhr. Storm Troops in Boehym discovered an organisation with between 4000 and 5000 members, leading to a round-up and arrests, including the leader, Herr Huisman, and the seizure of explosives and ammunition. There have been many arrests at Leipzig and Breslau, where it is alleged that the police chief was to be assassinated. COMMUNIST LEADERS NINETY-THREE ARRESTED. Received July 30, 6.5 p.m. BERLIN, July 29. Ninety-three Communist leaders have been arrested in North Germany and charged with secretly reorganising the party. The secret police have ordered that all Communists imprisoned in Germany must go without lunch tor three days owing to some unknown person cutting down a tree planted by Prts'dent von Hindenburg at Tempelhoferfeld in celebration of the first national labour day under the Nazi regime. JEWISH BOYCOTT GERMAN SHIPPING AFFECTED. Received July 30, 6.25 p.m. BERLIN, July 29. At a meeting of the new board of control of the Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line, Her Schinckel, the former president, stated that the foreign boycott against Germany had affected the company’s business most severely but the company entered the new year hopefully. STUDENTS CARRIED OFF BEATEN BY STORM TROOPERS. BODY OF ONE RETURNED. Received July .30, 6.25 p.m. BERLIN, July 29. The Jewish Telegraph Agency circulates a report that Storm Troops, on July 24, carried off 16 Jewish students and a teacher at a Brunswick school to the Nazi barracks, where they were beaten, one, Beni Zauberel, subsequently dying. The Nazis handed the body to the Jews for burial, alleging that they had hoard the students criticising Dr. Goebels. GERMAN AEROPLANES CROSS INTO AUSTRIA. ANOTHER LEAFLET RAID. Received July 30, 7.10 p.m. SALZBURG, July 29. Five German aeroplanes crossed the frontier from Bavaria and showered thousands of leaflets attacking “the traitorous_Dollfuss Government/’ and urging the people to revolt. The ’planes were unhindered owing to the absence of Austrian defence aeroplanes, which were attending a Nazi demonstration at Graz.