FOUR ARMIES

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1932, Page 8

FOUR ARMIES

GERMANY’S DANGER ELEMENTS

“C T VIL WAR RAGING.”

, • '.LONDON, July 7. . Four uniformed private angles—the Nazis, Stahlhelms, -Iron- - Front, «a»d. Communists—are 'terrorising Germany,and the Communist alone-are an illegal organisation, says the Beilin coD'espon-. dent of the. “Daily Mail.”. The disorders whjch have occurred in numerous German cities (clashes - between -Nazis, and police and Nazis and Communists), have dismayed the nation.' ‘ The- Nazi, organ, “Angriff,” says that civil war >is raging through the-land. ,"V-----Centre Party leaders-ascribe the disturbances to -the wearing of Nazi uni■forihs, and the Nationalists .to . Communist mobilisation. Many persons ■were wounded in a fight between Nazis and Communists in a poor quarter in Berlin. . " ; '■ "

A crowd numbering some thousands boseiged the Central Labour Office, erv- 1 ing : “We are hungry. Give us bread.” A special correspondent of the ‘‘Manchester Guardian’ ’ in Berlin telegraphs that every other tree in the country is painted with the Nazi swastika emblem. Peasants stop working co greet travellers .with the Fascist salute. They expect that 1 a triumph for Herr Hitler, th'e’Fascist leader, in the-'elec-tion on July 31, will mean the cancellation of debts. They want the exclusion of all foreign agricultural produce.

The working class,lron Front’s three arrows, symbolising discipline, unify’, and activity, replace the swastikas, wherever any industry, however small, appears. . • . ; Tlie Socialists have learnt much : from the’'Nazis. Her Hitler is thrown on the defensive mthe’toivns. although he Continues to • sweep the .country, 1 where protectionism and anti-Semitism ; are 'rife. '• ‘ ' ' . ' ■ Nazi “storm, troops” scour the country roads on bicycles and in motor-cars. Wearing bright yellowish-brown uniforms, with red brassards, adorned with the swastika. This gu-b gives thorn Ruritanian appearance. 1 ’Centre Party leaders at Cologne have uwumtlv • appealed to President’ von Hindenburg to place n ban on the wearing of uniforms, which, however theatrical, inflame the passions' and lead to bloodshed.