HITLER’S PROPOSAL

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1932, Page 5

HITLER’S PROPOSAL

FOR ARMY RULE ULTIMATUM TO HINDENBURG (United Press Association—By Electric Teicgraph—Copyright.; LONDON, July 19. . Hitler proposes to send an ultimatum 'to * President yon H.naenburg to the effect that the * “Brown Shirts’' will lx 1 armed unless the Government proclaims ‘h v: ilta£e of emergency and enables 'tliS oj apponiiirient of the Generals commanding the various Army Corps as Federal Commissioners, with complete power to put the police under the control of the Army, 'chits placing Germany under a military dictatorship; 1 , ,

The Hitlerites are hopeful that martial law would *assist them to assume a dictatorship, whatever be the result of the Reichstag elections. The Government, however, is insistent that tlie Army must not b< brought into the political disputes. BRITISH AND GERMAN WORKERS FIGHTING IN COMMON CAUSE LONDON, July 18. The “Manchester Guardian’s” Berlin correspondent eays that 130 Socialist newspapers have a front page manifesto from , the British Trades Unions and Labour Party, signed by Mr Citrine, and Mr Laneburv, declaring that* the struggle of the German Workers is wlso the struggle of the British workers. This act of international solidarity lias made a profound impression, as it is the first foreign recognition of the Iron Front’s .struggle on behalf of German democracy against Fascist dictatorship.

Miss Ellen Wilkinson arrived bearing from the British Labour Party, a five-feet banner embroidered “Three cheei*s for the Iron Front.”

. PROTEST TO PRESIDENT, !' l 1 (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, July 19. Herr Hitler protested , to Von Hindenburg against the police’s Cossacu methods at Koenigsberg where only the Nazis’ boundless discipline averted an incalculable catastrophe. “Vorwaerts” .says that during the 'month l , since the Nazis were permitted to wear uniforms, there have been, ninety-nine killed and 1125 injured in clashes. * .