HINDENBURG IS ANGRY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20494, 12 March 1932, Page 15

HINDENBURG IS ANGRY.

REPLY ... TO ATTACKS.

- PATRIOTIC DUTY TO GERMANY. (t'KTTEB PRESS ASSOCIATIOK--BX ELECESIC TELEGRAPH—COPYBIGHT.) (Received March 11th, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN,-March 10. :"t staiid; as-trustee for the whole of ths .German and will be bound only -by God, my-conscience, and' the Fatherland, " said President von Hindenburg, in a 15. minutes' broadcast, during which he banged his study tabic and spoke with a voice vibrating with angor, as he replied to personal attacks, for which alone he has broken his seven years of silenfee. lie declared:— "My-life's work will tell, >more than words, : o£ my aims and desires." . He explained that lie only offered himself for 're-election to the Presidency to fulfil a patriotic dutj\ If he declined there would bo a danger of a . Party split, resulting in the election of an extremist partisan (Herr Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Leader), who would cause disaster to the Fatherland. Value of the Young Plan. President Hindenburg affirmed his determination to stand at the second ballot if not elected at the first. He ; regretted that some of the former electors, even his old comrades, misunderstood him. declared that he signed the. Young Plan because he was convinced it was an essential step to national freedom, which already had resulted in the freedom of the Rhineland. He had only v signed the emergency decrees because the Reichstag had failed in its task. ' lie urged the nation to recapture the spirit of 1914, and reunite for the sake of the Fatherland. GERMAN TAX ON APPLES. ■■■ - INCREASE AGAINST AUSTRALIA. (l-KITSD PBSSS ASSOCIATION —BY ELECTRIC TKLEGKAPH —COPYXfOHT.) LONDON, March 10. A new German super-tar iff imposes a rate of 11.85 marks in the case of Australian apples, compared with the olid duty, of 2.95 marks.