THREE INTRIGUES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 158, 6 July 1934, Page 5

THREE INTRIGUES

EVENTS IN GERMANV MORE LIGHT ON UPHEAVAL DEFINITIONS OF THE PLOTS GOVERNMENT DEFENDS HITLER (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) Received July 5. 9.45 p.m. LONDON, July 5. The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that an authoritative official explanation of Hitler's intervention indicates that high Nazi authorities are sincerely convinced of the danger which was approaching. They had collected information disclosing three intrigues, two of which were linked. The plotters were loaders of Storm Troops associated with Herr von Roehm. also General von Schleicher and friends, of whom von Bose was the ringleader, associated with, but working independently of. Herr von Papen. The Roehm group, drunk with power, supposedly wished to exterminate certain members of the regime to regain influence over Hitler, using a pretext that wicked members of Cabinet had destroyed friendly relations between Hitler and Herr von Roehm. Meanwhile, the Schleicher group intrigued for a change of government still under Hitler’s leadership, but with General von Schleicher as the Reichswehr Minister. This group came into contact with the Storm Troops through Group Leaders Strasser and Ernst. The Storm Troops, despite the prohibition of arms, managed to secure some. Ernst ordered all the troops in motor lorries in the Brandenburg area to be ready by noon on June 30. The troops were to be brought into the streets and chaos created by the murdering of prominent Nazis, including Herr Goebbels. The Government contends that its drastic intervention wars justified, because it prevented infinitely greater bloodshed. It crushed each group, but it does not explain how so many were shot while being arrested. VON PAPEN RESTRICTED SOME NOBLES EXECUTED LONDON. July 4. The Daily Express Berlin correspondent says that Herr von Papen remains Vice-Chancellor but will find a detachment of black uniformed bodyguards at his office and his old staff replaced by Nazi officials. Thus Herr von Papen is now himself in chains. News and the executions has reached most of the relatives of the dead men, some of them nobles. This causes a new danger to Herr Hitler, for the old feudal tradition will make them swear vengeance against those who sent their kinsmen to their death. The Sunday Express is banned throughout Germany.

JiITLEP.’S DIFFICULTY 1 BERLIN, July 4. Her von Papon will temporarily retain the A ice-Chancellorship, apparently as the result of Herr Hitler’s uneasy interview with President von Hindenburg. but his position is completely undermined, threatening his early disappearance from the regime. RUMANIA’S ACTION STORM TROOPS DISSOLVED BUCHAREST, July 4. The Government has dissolved the 100,000 German Storm Troopers resi|ent m Rumania as a menace to public rder.