GERMAN ELECTIONS
MUZZLING THE PRESS. CRUSHING COMMUNISM. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. BERLIN, Feb. 15. The police to-day seized all the copies of two evening newspapers in Berlin. If the muzzling of the press proceeds at the present rate criticism will be silenced before the general election on March 5. The war against Marxism and Communism is being conducted with unabated vigour. Police Commander von Ileydekamp has been appointed special Commissioner of the Rhineland and Westphalia, and lias been vested with extraordinary powers. lie Intends to arm Nazi storm troops and use them as auxiliary police. This appointment brings all the police and gendarmes in tiie Rhineland under the orders of the Chancellor, Herr Hitler, who is determined to crush Communism in the industrial areas.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18873, 17 February 1933, Page 5
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