DANZIG ELECTIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 6

DANZIG ELECTIONS

■ NAZIS SECURE 35 SEATS. PARTICULARS OF THE VOTING. .tinted Presi Aaeociation —By El? 'trie •Telegraph—Copy right.) (Received this day .at 1.15 p.m.) DANZIG, 31. iv 28. > ■ The- -Nazis thirty-five out of -seventy-two seats, and almost fifty per cent, of the : votes- as follows: '•Nazis 107,619 ; Social Democrats, 38,000 ; Centre 31,500 Communists 11,800; German Nationalists 13,600 ;• Poles 6,703;- others ' 2j600. ADDRESS BY VON GOEEIXG. SOHLAG ETER CO3IM E3IOR ALTON. (Received May . 29-at 1.36 p.m.) DUSSEi J'DOR-F, May 28. Three hundred thousand 'Brown: Shirts land Stahlhelms, including 70,OOO' young*tci’s marclied to tlic foot of Herr Sehlageter’s memorial as the climax to the commemoration of Sclilageter’s death, to hear von Gearing streak. He described Sclilagetci 'ass ‘‘the last- soldier oi the world uai, laud the first soldier of the third Reich who died while defending his country’s honour and peace.” VIENNESE: STUDENTS’ RIOTING. . (Received "May 2-9 at 2 pim.) VIENNA, 3lay 28. Violating the Vienna University’s mediaeval privilegeythe police, under Government orders,, entered the build-, iitg, with drawn truncheons and ended Nazi students! rioting against Herr Dolfuss land the .Minister of Justice, Herr Schussnig. The occasion was the Catholic students’ memorial demonstration in honour of Leo Schlageter who- was shot by the French for sabotage in the Ruhr in 1928. Nazis, resenting outsiders’ homage to theii own “martyr,” drove away Herr Dolfuss and Herr Sehussnig, and severely handled the Catholic students. When the police. arrived the Nazis barricaded themselves-: and threw chairs; ink-pots, and books at the police-iwho quelled the disturbance by arresting some- and dispersing the rem'ainder. \