NAZI STRENGTH

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1933, Page 5

NAZI STRENGTH

INCREASE NOTED IN AUSTRIA.

( Ur'ted Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) LONDON, April 25.

Tiie “Times’ ” Vienna correspondent} reports that the growing Nazi strength in Austria is strikingly reflected in the results of jhe municipal elections at Innsbruck, the Nazis obtaining 14,996 votes and nine seats, compared with 1196 votes and no seats in 1930, chiefly at the expense of pan-Germans and Socialists, though tne latter remain the strongest party.

NAZIS SEIZE FURTHER CONTROL.

(Received this day at 11.40 a.m.) COLOGNE, April 25

In pursuance of its unification the Nazis have appointed a commission to administer the Rhineland and Westphalian bankers’ association. Now, practically every organisation in the Rhineland, except religions, is dominated by the Nazis who even seized the hairdressers’ organisation.

LIBRARIES TO BE “CLEANSED.”

BERLIN, April 25,

A Nazis decree orders the committee to examine the public libraries '.and cleanse them of “Marxist, and antinational rubbishy literature,” including the works of famous liberals and pacifists, also those books dpaling with the Soviet, all.of which will be publicly burned.