GERMAN DENIAL

Hokitika Guardian, 28 March 1933, Page 5

GERMAN DENIAL

BRUTALITY TO JEWS

‘REPORTS ARE BAREFACED LIES’

(United Press Association—,By Electrio

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, March 27

The “Daily Mail’s” Berlin correspondent says:—“Hitler has authorised his c.ose colleague, Herr Hans Staegel, to say that all of the reports circulated as to mishandling of Jews are barefaced lies.

Her Hails Staegel, speaking personally, adds that the Jews have abused their political, ‘moral and financial power. They have -failed to protect the people from atheism and Marxism.”

AIM OF HITLER’S GERMANY

“DISARMAMENT OF POLAND.”

PARIS, March 27,

“The Germany of Ado.f Hitler seeks, not the recovery of Danzig, but the disarmament of Poland,” so M. Paderewski ( the ex-Premier of Poland) told the newspaper “Le Soir.” After taking Danzig and the Polish corridor, Germany will also want Silesia and Alsace, and Austria,” He said; “There will not be peace in Europe without a strong living Poland.”

EINSTEIN GOING TO BELGIUM

NO DESIRE TO RETURN HOME

LONDON, March 27.

“I cannot return home. The conditions are too terrible,” so Doctor Einstein told a “News Chronicle” representative at Southampton. “I cannot return home while freedom of word and opinion i$ abolished. Even thougt is not free. lam ready to believe that Jewish persecution has not official sanction, but Hitler was anti-Semetic before his election,” He added: “I will live in a little villa on the outskirts of Antwerp. Fascism and all that it implies is foreign to my creed.”

MINISTER’S HOMES DEMOLISHED

LONDON, March 27

. Unknown persons have demolished the contents and the dwellings of two members of the German Cabinet.

SWORD DUELLING RESTORED

WORK FOR UNEMPLOYED

(United Press Asso iatioJt—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this duv at 9,30 a,m.) BERLIN, March 27,

A significant example of the return to pre-war Germany j 6 the Government’s decree restoring .sword duelling at Heidelberg university. Th e students, mostly Nazis, are jubilant. Hitler i 6 introducing compulsory labour among the unemployed, particularly ‘in agriculture and forestry. Thirteen .special courts are being established to try political prisoners.