DANZIG POLLING

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 5

DANZIG POLLING

NAZIS HOPE TO WIN

TREATY OBSERVANCES ASSURED

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) DANZIG, "May 27. election here for the Volkstag will decide whether the Nazis are to dominate the internal politics . of Danzig besides those of the Reich. The Nazis at last election won only thirteen seats out of seventy-one, but they expect to-morrow to poll at least seventy per -cent, of the total votes. The Nazi leaders have given assurancefi to M. Posting, the Danzig representative of the League of Nations, that they will scrupulously obgerve the existing treaties, so that nothing shall disturb the relations of Danzig and Poland.

Almost all of the houses here are displaying Nazi Swastika flags. None dares to show, any other.

HITLER’S BROADCAST SPEECH

OPPOSED TO FRONTIER WARS

BERLIN, May 27. Chancellor Hitler, < in a moderately worded broadcast, has urged the Germans of Danzig to stand by their Fatherland. He abstained from using language hostile to Poland.' He -added: National Socialism knows no policy of frontier change at the expense of othoiy. It doe,? ' not want war .for the purpose of incorporating in Germany people who are riot' desirous of becoming—and cannot become —Oemi.u'is. Therefore, the Nazis a l '© limited to those belonging to our blood, and speaking our language. The 'Nazis’ great mission is to supply a bridge between the Germans inside and outside of our frontiers.

NAZI DICTATION TO AUSTRIA. DEMANDS CABINET RESIGNATION. BERLIN, May 27. The Dolfuss (Austrian) Government’s repression of the Nazis is re- , fleeted in the action of the German Government in imposing a seventy pound sterling fee for visas on Germans' visiting Austria. The charge is with a view to ’preventing clashes between Nazis and Austrian officials. ' A Nazi manifesto also demands the resignation of the Dolfuss Cabinet, and its replacement by a National Government, which, it says, “will alone be able to save 'Austria economically, politically ah<l culturally.” NAZIS CON TH OL " LTD r: pStfE&f'' '=;• • BERLIN, May 27. The citizens of Berlin were surprised to see tho : suppressed Communist evening ttowspapei’, “Weltemabend,” again for sale oh the streets, The British United Press correspondent, on inquiring at the editorial office, was Informed ; ‘‘W e have been harmonised. Our staff are fnow Nazi.”

RED FUNDS TO BE CONFISCATED. BERLIN, May 27. The German Cabinet in a five-hour sitting, promulgated laws fer confiscating the entire funds and property of the Communist Party, and its affiliated organisations. DANZIG ELECTION FIGHT. Fifty were wounded in an election battle at Zoppot between Government supporters and uniformed Nazis. The police finally effected the separation of the combatants. TREATMENT OF POLISH JEWS. GENEVA CONSIDERS REPORT. RUGBY, May 28. At a meeting of the Council of the League of Nations at Geneva, to consider Herr Ber.nhein 6 petition on the treatment of the Polish Jew s in German Upper Silesia, the German delegate, Herr von Keller, refused to accept 5 the report, which was . presnted by the Irish Free State delegate, M" Lester. . , , » It wag agreed by the Council - that cl i amended report should be submitted on Monday, when the League Council meets again. AUSTRIAN AMBASSADOR RECALLED. (Received this day at 9.15 a.m.) VIENNA, May 28. The Government hag recalled its. ambassador from Berlin. NAZIS’ FIRST BIG DEFEAT. BY LUTHERAN CHURCH CONGRESS (Received this dav at 9.30 a.m.) BERLIN, May 28. The Nazis suffered their Just big defeat ;0 t the hands of the Lutheran church congress, which, after a heated debate, ratified the. nomination of Pastor Bodelschwingh as first church president of the Reich, in defiance of the threat of Nazi “Gorman Christens,” that ®uch action might have “direct consequences” on their heads. Twenty-nine Lutheran churches will now support Bodelschwingh. Meanwhile the .committee of the Evangelical Church Unio n is co-operat-ing with the Nazis" and has recommended an amalgamation of all .Protestant and Lutheran churches under a Lutheran bishop, co-operating with ‘ a spiritual cabinet” of non-Lutherans, whose members would direct the affairs ftf thejr g\VA peculiar faith, ( ?