GERMANY’S FEAR

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1929, Page 6

GERMANY’S FEAR

OF CIVIL AVAR. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, April 29.

The “Daily Express’s” Berlin correspondent- asks: “Is Germany on the eve of a Nationalist rising?”

The correspondent says: The German Republicans are anxiously asking one and her this question. There arereports of the concentration in Bavaria of. Nationalist semi-military associations of the so-called:-Steel Helmets and of' Hittler Fascists. These are causing .apprehension. Moreover, diplomatists can detect a rupture Ikl- - Dr 'St rose maim. (Foreign Minister) and the Nationalist, Dr Schacht (the German representative at the Reparation's Conference) whom some of the "Republicans consider lias un(lolie- Dr Stres-eni.ann’s five , years) work of international . reconciliation, in order- to produce a, national crisis which Herr Hugepberg, the would-be Nationalist Dictator, may exploit. Dr Streseiinann is too ill to meet the situation, and the general nervousness is increased by the soldierly appearance of young, .uniformed fascists in Berlin with black “death s head” caps, going off to Bavaria to the meeting of the Nationalist Associations and to semi-military exeieiscs. The newspaper “Munche.ncr Post,”- discussing these gatherings, says; “It almost looks as il we are on the verge of civil war.”