TENSION PREVAILS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1933, Page 5

TENSION PREVAILS

GERMAN POLITICS v,. . \ * GENERAL PEACE IN DANGER. (United Press Association—By F.ectric Telegraph—Copyright/ LONDON, March, 1; “Tho Times,’.’ -in an says: Sdngs like*. “The Night of Long Knives” and the general massacre ot political opponents, could have o been dismissed two months ago ,:asu crude hravado. They cannot now be so treated. The Nazis have reinforced the police. . Prominent Nazis condone political crime,, and harangue ruu the young and credulous in, inflamatory terms. " ’ * ' -■ . •• i; - " :

Tlie danger of the situation in Germany is emphasised by Cabinet measures which indicate the inpending abolition of Parliament. This, course, is Germany’s own. affair.u Nationalists may ,be able to control their colleagues; nevertheless the policy of the Nazi wing has produced nervous anxiety, in which a trivial incident may be fraught with disastrous consequences. Moreover, in the present, state of Europe, a contin-. uance of the high tension ?in Berlin must be a danger to : international peace. -

ELECTION FIGHT IS OVER.

..(Times Cable), (Received this day at 8/45 a.m.) LONDON, March 1. The “The Times’ ” . Berlin correspondent declares that the election fight is over. It has been bitter, but ,ronesided from the first. Clubs were trumps, and most of the trumps were held by Herr Goering. , „ . - It is not .clear how the extensive preparations for the fire at the Reichstag /escaped the., guards and attendants, but the Nazis were quick to, seize ;the opportunity of silencing the' Communists who represent . at least as' many shades of opinion as the British Labour, Party.. _ _. , -■ ■. •

ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE.

CITY SEETHING WITH RUMOUR;

• • _ BERLIN, March 1. . A, presidential decree has! :bfeeu' ; issued providing the death penalty for the betrayal, of military secrets, and espionage on behalf of foreign powers. persona ■ offering foreign Governmenlrs information .'which is desirable to be withheld in the interests of Germany's welfare are liable to ten .years’'- "hard labour.,'; 's-zir-ri-wb The city is seething with alarmist rumours, . including an 1 impending conn d’ ©tat., and the displacement. of Hindenburg tit favour of an absolute ;-yg Hitler; dictatdf , «hiip. •••tdusse ure taken seriously, but W merely symptomatic of the country’s state of ' nerves, , ■ .

SEIZED COMMUNIST DOCUMENTS

SHORTLY TO BE PUBLISHED

(Received this day at 11.5 BERLIN, March >l.. HeCr Goering will shortly publish' the documents found in Liebkneeht 'House, allegedly revealing C°mmunist: plaas to leading \ statesmen, and?, secretly poison outstanding personages.!: Ilia arrests in Berlin now total 230. The first blow ... against the Jewish press, was taken this morning whett the . publication of the “8 Uhr,” ia 'popular Berlin picture paper, was. prohibited, despite its non-political character. Nazi students havi© removed all democratic Jewish newspapers from the Berlin university, including the “Berlin Tageblatt,”. also me of the oldest 'newspapers -in Germany, the “Vbssy3 C he Zeitung.” ' v .