"SLAYING HIS TOUGHS”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 156, 4 July 1934, Page 7

"SLAYING HIS TOUGHS”

HITLER’S PART EXPLAINED ANONYMOUS WRITER’S VIEW WELL-INFORMED OPINION (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, Received July 3, 10.25 p.m. LONDON, July 3. The Morning Post publishes an article by an anonymous writer who has had exceptional opportunities of studying the Nazi revolution first hand. He says that Herr von Roehm and other Btonn Troop chiefs had become a burden to the regime. Hitler, who was aware of their moral weakness, had defended them at first as rough fighters for a great cause, but he now comes forward again as the national liberator slaying his own toughs. Millions of Germans will sigh with relief over the death of Herr Heines, but it will be more difficult to explain the deaths of General von Schleicher, Herr von Bose, and Herr Klausenner, who were- in- ■ rigued with Heines and his friends. It could only have been done for the purpose of ridding Germany of them. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correpondent states that it is believed that between 200 and "00 have been executed. There were 300 arrests in Munich alone. NEW GERMAN OGPU GOERING’S GREATER PRESTIGE. Received July 3, 11.15 p.m. LONDON, July 3. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that General Goering, whose prestige has been enormously increased, has ommissioned Police General de Leuge to reorganise live groups of Storm Guards, comprising a large part of the Prussian Storm Troops. These selected guards of the Brown Shirt movement are destined to become the counterpart of the Ogpu under the leadership of ; Herr Himmler. He and General Gocring will be the most powerful figures •‘merging from the present transition to stand on the right and left hand of Herr Hitler, ami Deputy Hess, who controls uniformed police as distinct from Herr Himmler’s political police. Times’ Comment. The Times, in an editorial, says: — ■‘Herr Hitler’s methods seem more likely to drive the disaffection underground than prevent it spreading. He intends to keep the Storm Troops in subjection, depending much more on a species of Ogpu, and perhaps still more upon’the regular army. A gulf separates Germany from the western nations owing to the brutal persecution of suspects, suppression of freedom of speech and thought, a plague of spies and informers. waves of intensive emotional propaganda, dissemination of pagan doctrines, and glorification of violence. Germany has temporarily ceased to be a modern European country and has reverted to inedievality. We need not pity the dead Nazis, who richly deserved their fate, but the ominous features is the disregard of all forms of law which are sacrosanct in every modern State. Still more significant is the indifference with -which this is accepted. Probably there will be more reason in the next few years to be afraid for Germany than of Germany.’’ GROUP EXECUTIONS LIST NOT AVAILABLE SOME WELL-KNOWN MEN BERLIN, July 2. Group executions after summary court-martials continue. At least 60 people have been shot at the former cadet school at Lichterfield, where the court-martial sits. A special code enables summary executions, for which the proceedings are brief. The full casualty list is not available, but includes Werner von Alvensleben (an ex-member of the Herren Club), von Muellncr (the cx-Crown Prince’s aide-de-camp), and Kurt, who was a Storm Troop loader, a war-time air pilot, and also the holder of the order Pour le Merite. Therefore HenHitler gave him a chance of committing suicide, which he refused. He and the other victims, including the Storm Troop leaders Engels, Sanders. Hoffman and Kluze, seemed to regaid suicide as tantamount to an admission of guilt, and preferred to face the firing squad. QUESTIONS IN COMMONS BRITAIN WATCHING EVENTS. [ British Official Wireless. 1 RUGBY, July 2. The situation in Germany was th* 1 subject of a question in rhe. House of 1 oninicas, but the Foreign Secretary, in a brief reply, said that the recent { occurrences there had been fully de- I scribed in the Press and were also dealt with in official communiques issued from Berlin and Munich. His Majesty’s | Government, he added, was naturally I following with close attention the course of events, but he was unable at ; present tn make any further state- ■ went. The latest official communique published in Berlin states: “The ‘purge’ was complted last night, and no further action in this direction will be taken.” It added that complete order reigns in the whole country. General Blomberg, in an order issued to the Reichswehr, declares that the state of emergency is over. HERR HITLER “SHOULD BE DESTROYED” NOTED AMERICAN’S COAIMENT Received July 3. 10.5 p.m. NEW YORK, July 2. The commission organised under the iuspices of the Lord Marley Committee to aid Nazi victims, opened its inquiry into conditions in Germany tcluyj The noted lawyer, Clarence Darrow, who is a member of the commission, said: “If there are any no.e murde-s to-morrow, I hope it ■•di end in the killing of Hitler. I think Hitler is a very dangerous man uid should be destroyed. 0 Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Influenza Colds*