ARRESTS CONTINUE

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1933, Page 5

ARRESTS CONTINUE

REDS IN GERMANY; ADJOURNMENT OF THE REICH. (United Press Association— By F.ectrio Telegraph—Copyright)

BERLIN, March 3

The Government’s decision is that the 'new Reichstag shall meet in the Garrison Church, which is too small to' house the members. This suggests that -no or even Socialists will be allowed to enter the building, which the Natioualits regard as sacred to. the Hohenzollern traditions. The Government is intending an immediate adjournment of the new Reichstag, when it will proceed with HenHitler’s .four year plan.

Another significant development is the Prussian's decision that. a "Republican red, gold and. black flag need not bfe .flown on public buildings, but may have allowed a choice between the Prussian black and white colour.! of the former Imperial black, white and red flag. This is believed ft presage the total abolition of the Republican flag. V. Sweeping arrests of Communists and their Sympathisers continue. It is estimated that thousands have been arrested, including two thousand in the Rhineland, 850 in Westphalia, 400 in Thuringia, where the salaries of all arrested officials are to be devoted to maintaining auxiliary police.

OPPOSITION TO MARXISM. / BERLIN, March 3. Herr Hitler, the Chancellor, .reviewed a deputation representing the Nation,ail Socialist; workers throughout Germany. He said that, while ruthlessly persecuting .Marxism, the Government recognised there w?s a necessity'for .winning back the masses of the workers whom the Marxists had led astray into economic errors. He added' that the. liberal capitalist thought which . insisted upon wage cuts and . upon crippling taxation had suffered culpable shipwreck. It now was necessary not only to speed up production but to develop 'consuming pcaver. '

ATTACK ON “INTELLECTUALS;” BERLIN, March 3.

Herr .Hitler’s newspaper the ; “Volkischer Boebachter” discussing “Cultural internationalism and intellectual treason,”.- accused numerous writers of “pacifist excesses’,’ iU),-c: their- books, plays and films, including Einstein, and Remarque, Heinrich and Thomas Mann, the novelists: ’-None "of 'them are under illusions regarding their safety under the present tegiifle. EinV " *t©in ,ahd MetaaVqlle are living abroad. Numerous intellectuals and . their families are fleeing from the country. COMMUNIST FLEE 3 TO DENMARK. V' BERLIN, March 3. Fearing the Nazis, Herr Thaelmann, a Communist candidate at the last Presidential election,’ has 'fled to DenGREAT OVATION TO HITLER. CHALLENGE TO marxism. 1“ (Received thig day at 9.45 a.m.) BERLIN,, March 3. Preceded by the tramp of .marching men, loud commands, shrill music, the dhee m of women, cries of greeting, and broadcast addresses, Hitler was received with wild enthusiasm. Hitler condemned the old regime for the failure of the domestic foreign policy,-'-entailing between eight and nine million unemployed. He said that the disunity of the people was the basis of xarxism. personalities, not democracy, created values. One gening outweighed mi 111°% of capital. Russia was an outstanding failure of marxism. “I am not fighting to «av e --capitalism. I am the child of the people, and if you can prove" that marxism .guarantees an earthly paradise, I shall turn marxist myself. •