GERMAN AFFAIRS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 March 1933, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS

THE HITLER POLICY MURDERERS REPRIEVED. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright BEROX, Thursday. Five Nazis sentenced to death in August for the murder of a Communist, Pietzuch, at Zotempa, and afterwards reprieved, have now been released under orders from ITerr Hitler. The crime was committed a few hours after President Hindenburg had issued an emergency decree prescribing the death penalty for terrorists. ' A Cologne message states that the Burgomaster of AVeiven shot himself following a gang attack led by a publican whose arrest he had ordered. Four armed men at Straubing dragged a Jewish moneylender named Stelzl from his bed at midnight and bundled him into a car. Later his body was found riddled with bullets. Stelzl won a slander action against a Nazi in 1031. Dr. Goebels, the new Minister of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment, explains his functions as including the oversight of broadcasting, the Press, films, theatre and education. The rights of criticism will not be taken from the Press, but the criticism must help the Government. President Hindenburg has decreed the restoration of the Imperial war flag, which is the Iron Cross. The .Republican red and gold cockade and military capes have- been replaced with the black, white and red. Dr. Otto Braun has resigned from the Reichstag and Prussian Parliament. A DRAMATIC SCENE. BERLIN, Thursday. There was a dramatic scene at Karlsruhe when Herr Wagner, the Hitlerite Commissioner at Baden, addressing a multitude in the main square, and also the whole of Bavaria through the microphone, said that a plot had been discovered for an outrage on the French Consulate at Karlsruhe. This was to be perpetrated by Sociality, but laid to -the charge of Hitlerites with the object of causing diplomatic strife and possibly war between France and Germany. “The two traitors concerned have already been discovered, ’ ’ he said, “and will be publicly executed in this very square.” The crowd shouted its approval. TRADE SHRINKAGE. BERLIN, Thursday. An index of the world’s commercial slump is given by the fact that Germany’s imports in February were valued at 317,000,000 marks, a decline of 93,000,000 on last year’s value, and her exports 373,000,000 marks, a decline of 154,000,000 marks. Economists have long been emphasising that the shrinkage of the trade balance has reached a stage at which iit is impossible to meet external commitments. GERMAN GOODS BOYCOTTED. WAR-SA W. Thursday. Three-quarters of a million Polish Jews are boycohting German goods, and the Polish Government is preparing a list- of Germans to deport in the event of the further deportation of Polish Jews living in Germany. DR. LUTHER RESIGNS. (Received Friday, 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, Thursday. Dr. Luther has resigned from the Presidency of the Reichbank, CONSUL ASSAULTED. (Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.) MUNICH, Thursday. Two unknown men posing as detectives entered the house of the Swedish Consul-General, Dr. Manner, at Stuttgart, and beat him unconscious with heavy instruments, causing concussion. Swedisli-German relations have recently been strained owing to the 'Swedish Press criticism of Nazis. SOCIALISTS’ ATTITUDE. (Received Friday. 12.5 p.m.) BERLIN, Thursday. Though it is generally understood that they will be excluded if they attend, 121 Socialist Deputies have decided to boycott the opening of the Reichstag on 21st March.