GERMAN CROMWELL

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1932, Page 5

GERMAN CROMWELL

HITLER’S SCHEME

AGAINST PAYING REPARATIONS.

(United .Press Association —By Electric leiegrapn. —cui/jrigiiL.; LONDON, May %j. Herr Hitler, tub -Sam .w,...,., an luurvieV.' to incut.-Coionei i\ t. j.,<niei cmi, (Rrmeily \oi tne ivitcliener r ight.ng (st-oiKo), Adio served in tin* South A.i lean War and the Great Dur, and mis ueeu an extensile traveller m iisia and auku. Irierr Hitler Ueilaiecl: —“\»tiut Germany wants is a Groimvell " lie iiotiaitd passionately that -Germany cannot pay tiie reparations, saving ner gieat industries are crippled, ;,nd tmvt millions are destitute, ire staL.d n*>siness activities in Germany are paralysed, and there were twenty-eight tnousand suicides in ueiiimiiy in uui owing to poverty and distress. * in parts of j.nunugia and Saxony, lie stated, eight-five per edit o 4 tin; people are unemployed. 1 Iteferring to tne ex-Ivaiser, Herr t*Hitler said: “The Royal Family no longer matters, except that its reWbiliation is a moral question.” Ho mid the Nazis desired to have a real ■Anglo-German understanding. He favoured Britain maintaining strong naval forces. Disarmament, he said, was impossible while violent contrasts between the French and German armaments existed. U

FATE OF CHANCELLOR

IN PRECARIOUS POSITION

BERLIN, May 3'..'. President Von. Hindenburg anct Chancellor Bruening had a momentous conference on the German » political situation on Sunday, which will he renewed on Monday. The general benef is that the Cabinet situation is precarious. The Emergency Decree to meet the financial crisis is causing difficulties, and particularly the proposed curtailment of war pensions to wounded exservice men, widows and orphans. The Trade Unions are also insisting that the new.taxes which the Emergency ■ Decree would levy on all workers, to help the unemployed, shall not be placed on the small incomes, the Trade Unions heWing that the wealthy people must jbear a larger burden. In view of these difficulties and of the nearness : of the Lausanne Conference, Chancellor Bruening wants an assurance thkt President Von Hindenis supporting the Government’s —and asks Dr Bruening for a pledge that the President will not tolerate the interference of the military leaders with the Government’s administration. Tt is understood, that President Von Tlindenburg has asked for time to consider and that he will reply on Monday. There can be no doubt that, since General Greener's resignation on May 12th, a group of generals, headed by General Von 'Schleichter, have been trying to drive a wedge between Chancellor Bruening and Presiden Von Hindenburg. Dr Bruening’s fate thus hangs in the balance. It has been suggested that General Von Schleichter may be removed from the political arena by his transfer to . the command of an Army Corps Otherwise General Von Schleichter is a candidate for the. Defence Ministry.

CHANCELLOR MAY RESIGN.

STATEMENT FROM BERLIN.

LONDON, May 30. The “Times’s” correspondent at Berlin says: “The Chancellor of Germany, Doctor Bruening, has had a lengthy conversation with President Von Hindenburg. It is believed that he requested the reinforcement of his powers in a manner sufficient to carry him not only to tile Lausanne Conference, but beyond it, but Dr Bruening, apparently, was unable.to induce President Von Hindenburg-to agree. It is, therefore, difficult, to./foresee the consequences of Dr Bruening’s resignation j,' it should be tendered, but a Military Cabinet is not at present expected.” The correspondent adds: “If Dr Bruening should resign, he would be the first Republican Chancellor to relinquish office because the President's confidence was not forthcoming. Thus the German situation, under the presisure of the crisis, is leading back to absolutism.”

RIOTS AT FRANKFURT. PITCHED BATTLES IN ONE CENTRE

I LONDON, May 30. f The “Times’s” correspondent at Frankfurt states: Four were killed in Communist riots in the Rhineland. Ibe riot is still unquelled. Shop windows have been smashed and looted, the demonstrators, disappearing when the police arrive. There liavo been pitched battles between the .rioters and the police at Zupportal, lasting for two hours. The Communists used idles, aril automatic pisto's. They polled up manholes in the streets, and tore up roads in order to obstruct the police. Several l;ir dre l of the demonstrators have been arrested.

NAZI’S ELECTION MAJORITY

BERLIN, May SO. Polling 131,525 votes against their

opponents’ total of 126,962, the Nazis lia-vc captured twenty-four of 'the forty-six scats m the Oldenburg State Parliament. This is the first complete Nazi majority over all the other parties at any German election. BRUENING WANTS LONG REST.

BERLIN. May 30,

Herr Bruening told President Hindenburg that he wanted a long rest, which is interpreted to mean that lie wishes to be excluded from Cabinet negotiations Hindenburg lias began consultations with the Party Leaders in turn, according to their strength in the Ueicliistag.

CONCERN AT RESIGNATION

GENEVA, May 30

Herr Bruening’s resignation lias caused consternation on account ol the probable effects on the Lausanne Disarmament Conference.

BRUENING RESIGNS. * BERLIN, May 50 Bruening lias resigned.