NAZIS’ ANGER

Hokitika Guardian, 24 August 1932, Page 5

NAZIS’ ANGER

AT GOVERNMENT

REGARDING DEATH SENTENCES

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received th's day at '9.30 a.m.) , - BEUTHEN, August 23.

“In view of the* monstrous verdiit; I feel myself bound to you, my comrades, in absolute loyalty. Your liberty is. now a question of our honour, and our.'tduty is to fight against the ..Government which has rendered possible such- happenings,” declared Herr ,-Hitler, in a personal telegram to the five condemned men. It is regarded as a declaration of war on the Government and 1 a dangerous encouragement to his followers who ordinarily are hard to keep in cheok. Herr Goebbels, the Nazi Berlin leader says: “We have no reason to glorify terrorism, but the sentencesmust not be fulfilled. Thsy are tantamount to a blow in national Germany’s face.”' The “Vorwaerts” 9ays “Von Papen must find a way to get rid of the bloody ghosts,conjured up, by the removal the; ban on Nazi uniforms. The pardoning of .the condemned men will mean the death of emergency decrees,”

APPEAL FOR COMMUTATION.

BERLIN, lAugust 23,

Captain Roelin, a Nazi, is speeding here to present Herr Hitler’s personal* appeal to Chancellor Von Papen for the commutation of the Beuthen death sentences on the- Nazis who committed murder in Silesia. One prominent Hitlerite says: “If they shoot our mem, there will be no holding our storm troops!” It is believed in Government circles, however, that there will be no reprieve. .

NEWSPAPERS URGE PARDON. BERffiTN, August 23. The Frankfurter “Zeitung” says that Von Hindenburg and Cabinet have decided to dissolve .the Reichstag immediately it meets on August 30 to avert defeat on the want of confidence. Herr Hitler is reported to lie hastening personally .to impress upon Von Papen the necessity for pardoning the five condemned men. The majority of newspapers hope for commutation. The Catholic “Germania” insists that the misled masses must be shown that the State and law are above political parties.The Democratic press expresses the opinion that the verdict itself is sufficient warning, and urges commutation. '