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Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1933, Page 5

GERMAN LOAN

FOE RELIEF WORK

ANTI-JEWISH STRIKES OCCUR

(United Preea Association —By Electric

Telegraph—(Jcpyngb t. I

LONDON, May 13

The sum of £75,000,003 is being raised, probably by an international loan, 'in order to employ seven hundred thousand agricultural, housing, road and railway workeis, A great publishing firm, that of TJllstexn, employing eleven thousand hands, has been paralysed by a-- strike of the employees because the Jewish employees are being retained. Consequently, the “Vossiscbe Zeitung’s” and other papers which Ullistein’s publish, did not appear. Fourteen branches of a department store have been cloned because the employees have struck against the Jewish management.

TUSSAUD'S EFFIGY OF HITLER.

DAMAGED BY BEDS IN LONDON

LONDON, May 13

There was a violent struggle in the Marylebone Court when three Communists were charged with damaging the Hitler effigy at Madame' TUssaud’s Waxworks on May 13th. Mrs 3r-a.t3ley was charged with assaulting and obstructing the police, who >vere endeavouring to arrest her husband ° ,J the.occasion, ...

. Tussaud’s attendants,. giving evidence, said that the renovation, pi the effigy cost £l2. ... M

Mrs Bradley declared ’that the paintthrowing done on the occasion was intended ,as a protest against Dr Rosenberg’s representation of a murderous Government, She was eventually discharged . -...

..Others' present attempted anti Hitler igpeeches, shouting in unison “Down with Hitler.”.

. The Magistrate ordered their removal. fcfix • policemen then seized them, this, resulting in violent struggles on the dock floor.' The becased were finally overpowered and were remanded'ill custody for a week.

NAZI’S RAID IN DANZIG

DANZIG,.. May. 14. > ( Three lorry loads of German, police two detachments of Nazi Storm Troops, arriving in cars and cycles entered Danzig,'and raided the trade union headquarters. They tore down a Socialist flag, and hoisted the Swastika. The police cordon .then cleared and dispensed the crowd with truncheons. They arrested Brill, leader of the Danzig, Socialists, also the secretary of. the trades‘ : p^U)ns„a%d.tM«s ; editor of the Danzig “Vblkes.tinimo.v.

THE SWASTIKA -DENOUNCED.

LONDON, /May 13,

•Commenting on the wreath incident, Mr J. T. Gnrvin; ; 7m .bis'paper, ‘‘The 'Observer,” says : “We/ respect the old German flag'r/We .honour the. men •who fell for ’ it. Had-.Dr Rosenberg brought these colours to mingle with ours, we would have been touched, but the Swastika, or hboked cross, is a symbol of Jew-baiting, Je\/-beating or re-armament,, and discord. The hooked cross is the antithesis of the ■Christian cross.. It cannot be suffered io Tie among the memorials at the cenotaph;

(Received this day at 9.15 a.m.)

PROTEST-AGAINST NAZI ACT,

DANTZIG. May ! 13.

An &nti-*Hitler strike called to protest against the seizure of a trades union building, failed. Nazis -claim to have obtained possession legitimately, as the building belong?, to the parent organisation in Berlin, now Hitlerised.

A epmmuniq'Ue that complete orde r was restored when the Nazi flag was hauled down, following -conferences between the league’s commissioner, the president of Dahtzig Senate, and Nazi leaders. Brill and others hav e been released.

DR ROSENBERG RETURNS

LONDON, May 14

The German Nazi envoy. Dr. Rosenberg, Has “been recalled in view of the Reichstag meeting. He departs to-morrow. He says he is satisfied with the results of his visit. It is always valuable to .get another country’s view when faced with important problems. : i ’

JEWISH LAWYERS IN GERMANY

(“Times” Cable.)

LONDON, May 13

“The .Times’s” Borlih correspondent says: fn all 2,158. Jewish lawyers have been allowed to fractiee in .Germany. This is a larger figure than had been anticipated. •• There have been 923 Jews and 118 Communists debarred from legal practice/

NAZI POLITICAL REVENGE

(Received this day at 10 a.m.) COLOGNE, May 14

The bodies of two brothers, Christian and Joseph Vobis.'. formerly Stahlhelmers. who later joined the.Onnosition, -were found riddled with bullets in a street in Dusseldorf.

This is believed to have been au act

of political revenge, as both were frequently involved in party fights in which men were killed. A third brother who was a Nazi was recently stabbed to death by political opponents. RELEASE OF FRASER. (Received this day at 10 a.m.) BERLIN, May 14. Fraser has been released. He mast leave Germany within a specified time.