GERMAN AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1933, Page 5

GERMAN AFFAIRS

ANGER AND H ATRED

SERIOUS CONDITIONS

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BERLIN, February 22. The Bavarian Premier is to be held to his promise to resist new attempts to ride roughshod over Bavaria. Yon Leix, leader of the Bavarian Guard, declared that if after the elections, a violation of Bavaria’s, rights were at tempted, they would unfold the old Bavarian colours, and fight, and perhaps die for freedom and justice.

GAGGING OPPOSITION BERLIN, February 22. The raided) the Catholic Party’s printing works at Gladback, and confiscated thirty thousand pamplets on the ground that they violate the Government’s press, decree. Forty thousand Communist pamphlets were seized at Keil and Munich, which had veiled references to'Hitler’s unsuccessful Putsch in 1933.

A WARNING.

WHOLE POPULACE ANGRY. LONDON/ February 23. The "Daily Hail’s” Berlin corres* pendent says: “The whole of Germany is apprehensive, and is seething with anger and with hatred. Things have reached such a pass that the newspaper “Germania,” warns the Government that, if it cannot restrain its followers, civil war must result soon.

The paper adds, significantly: “There is not much time to lose.” The Government, says the correspondent, is aiming blow after blow at the nation’s liabilities. Freedom of speech i s dead. Freedom of the press has largely disappeared. The Catholic newspapers were to-day suspended for merely appealing to the Commissar of Prussia to pfiotect the Catholics there against the Nazi Storm Troops.

The Government denies the report that the Nazis will march on Berlin on the night of March sth, and hold the city while President; von Hindenberg is evicted and replaced by the Crown Prince.