GERMAN ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1932, Page 6

GERMAN ELECTIONS

OHURCH V. STJATE. CATHOLIC CHURCH INSULTED. 1 (United Press Association —By Electric '• Telegraph-- Copyright.) BERLIN, July 15. The Roman Catholic Bishops of Germany have issued a joint Pastoral Letter to the faithful warning them not to vote -at the forthcoming elections for, candidates of any parties whose interests, n aims, or views are in conflict with those of the Church. ■ The National Socialist organ “Der Angrift” has been suspended by the Ministry of the Interior in Prussia till July 23, for having in a series of articles, made gross personal attacks oh high officials, and published an article insulting to the Roman Catholic Church. , In the course of. the latter article ‘the .paper had demanded from the Government the (immediate .prohibition, of the. Catholic Centre Party,. Captain Goehring,' one of Herr Adolf Hitler’s chief ' lieutenants, in an election speech here, caused a sensation by announcing that within the next few days Herr Hitler would rescind the order given a long time ago expelling from the party any of its members caught with firearms. , , The. Thuringian Diet ihas dissolved itself. An election will be held on July 31 conjointly with those for the . new Reichstag. v unemployed SEIZE mayor. ■SUPPRESSED BY STORM TROOPS, 7, . BERLIN, July 16. , Weimar (Thuringia) was the scene Of great disorder owing to the cut of 10 per 'cent, made in the dole, A mob of unemployed gathered round the Mayor’s house and, despite efforts to bar them out, succeeded in forcing a way in dragging out th© Mayor, 1 and severely' maltreating him in . the street, the police proving .powerless at /the moment beyond rescuing the Mayor from, the clutches of the angry unemployed. 1 The mob then tried to- storm, the local headquarters of the Hitler Party,, but were prevented from carrying out;, their plan by the police and the Nazi storm troops. The poor relief , offices next cam e in for attention, and were, ransacked, documents and papers being. destroyed, and officials having to flee. Finally, police reinforcements succeeded in restoring order. EXTRAORDINARY VIOLENCE. military DICTATORSHIP. 1 ' ; BERLIN, July 16V Extraordinary violence is accompanying the propaganda for the general election oil ,July ,30. It. points to a military dictatorship. . The police there and elsewhere/are un- : abie to keep order. V--'--:C'4'w Cliancellor Von Papen has returned ;from a visit to President Von Hindeniburg, after receiving authority to appoint a Federal Commissioner for Prussia, even before the. elections if deemed . pecessary. Such action will replace the CatholiciSocialist "Coalition which still rules Prussia because the Nazis are unabl 6 to obtain a sufficient majority in the Prussian'State Diet. , .... -CMeanwhile the tone of the Hitlerite 1 campaign speakers is increasingly defiant.. Herr, Frank, legal, adviser to Hitler, estimates that three hundred Nazis have been hilled in ... recent political fRe ■■ volrH:;; “MTe shMl avenge; them in -a - manner that will be remembered lor, a. thousand years.” ‘He added that the coming Government will be a Nazi Government, fir; . there-will he hone at all. ; ;