SITUATION UGLY

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1933, Page 5

SITUATION UGLY

EUROPEAN PEACE

AN OUTBURST BY VON PAPEN.

(United Press Aseo -,iatio» —By Electric Telegraph.—Copy right.)

LONDON, May 15

Captain von Papen, the Uerinan lastomshing.,outburst of “cabre rattling” coupled with Herr Francks’ ill-mannered intervention in Austrian politics, has .made the ugly situation in Europe, even more full of danger. ■‘A foreign political ring resembling August, 1914, is built around us. It would be childish to close our eyes to the danger' threatening our national life,” declared the vice-Chancellor. Captain Papen, at. a joint StahllielhiNazi demonstration at Munester. “We who have freed outselves from obsolete ideas Are not understood by governments ' still waddling... in - thp tracks of the French revolution. The world may be convinced when the Reichstag meets that a. great people cannot long be robbed of. vital rights.” ' ' The keynote of Captain" von Bapen’s oration was' the of the ideal pacifism andaglofifi’cation of the old Prussian ideal of death in battle, He remarked 1 ■ 1 ‘lnstead of' las’hiiig 'Up energies to the battle of life, the pacifists have tried t 0 spread carpets under everyone’s feet, Lifdwas to be a smooth street, wbefkas God has ordained that life shall be a steep path; Pacifism does not understand the old German horror of meeting one’s' death jh bed. To the pacifist, i! death fronP the hardening of the arteries seems td; have more appeal than' death on' the...battlefield. Mothers shotikl wear themselves out to give life to children. Fathers should fight on the battlefield to secure a future for their sons. The soldier is a man who remains bellicose in soul and body at the 1 end, of his life.’’ Captain Paper concluded: “Herr Hitler might truly declare: “I have restored to the German nation the example of the German soldier.”

AUSTRIAN NAZIS ROUSED.

VEILED INSU LT TO AUSTRIA.

' LONDON, May 15. Herr Franks ifC a speech at Vienna, lashed foUjrtefen' thousand Austrian Nazis into” frenzied' excitement, but the speech ebhsisteH : of a scarcelyveiled insult 1 to the Austrian Government. TliUs he said : . “Herr Hitler

will' shortly’ come to Austria, Y-,'whether the Austrian Govermnenu ■ ‘like it or not. 1 '' T defy'fhmn A to’ prevent Herr Hitler from visiting his mother’s grave,' in Upper Austria.” Herr Franks followed lip this attack with'.hn address to journalists at the Gerihan'. legatioh, when 'ho threatened that the 'German Government u'ould tako reprisals against';Austria for its reception''of himself ' In a special edition,,,, the . ‘fJieimwehr” demands the immediate' expulsion of Herr Franks.

UNDER SHADOW OF WAR.

: LONDON, May 15. The “Daily Telegraph” .says: “Danzig lies under the shadow of war. Fallowing , on. the Nazi’s seizure of the trade union, the Danzig people are hiding in their houses. . The ..streets . are deserted. Armed police fill. the towns. There are machine guns af every corner.

ANGLO-FRENCH RAPPROCHMENT

(Received thi s day at 10.15 a.m.) PARIS, May 15

“We told you so,” epitomises the press comment on von Papen’s. speech, coupled with despair, of anything emerging from , Geneva. • Some express, the opinion that peace in the world is still redeemable- bv- a Franco-British rapprochment These two countries are nearer now than, at-! any time, since