THE NAZI MENACE

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1933, Page 5

THE NAZI MENACE

AMERICAN ASSAULTER A STRONG PROTEST. Press Association Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, Friday. Tlie Berlin correspondent of the * 1 Daily Mail” states that the American Consui has strongly protested against a Nazi assault on an American, Dr. Daniel Mulvihill, whom a Nazi Storm Trooper violently struck on the face because he refused to salute a Nazi detachment which passed while Dr. Mulvihill was standing in the Unter den Linden. The consul has informed the German Government that if there are further cases of insult or maltreatment of Americans, the United States Government would warn Americans not to come to Germany. A was similarly assaulted in Berlin last week.

CAMOUFLAGED AEROPLANES. LONDON, Friday. The Vienna correspondent of the 4 ‘News-Chronicle” says the German Nazis are reported to be camouflaging German aeroplanes as Austrian for future use in dropping seditious literature in Austrian territory. It is stated that the machines will be piloted by Austrian emigrants, thus avoiding a charge that Germany is violating Austrian independence. NAZIS EXONERATED. LONDON, Friday. A Kovno message states, in connection with the allegations that the aeroplane Lithuanica had been fired on by German frontier guards, a Government commission has decided that, the crash of the airmen Darius and Girenas was due to fatigue and bad weather. The Government prohibited a newspaper from publishing rumours that the Nazis were responsible for the deaths of the airmen.

While flying from New York to Lithuania last month, Messrs Stephen Darius and Stanley Girenas crashed in the darkness in a forest near Kuhdamm, in Pomerania, and were killed. It was later suggested that their aeroplane was tired on by German frontier guards.