GERMAN UNREST

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1933, Page 5

GERMAN UNREST

PARTY SUSPECTED POLICE SEIZE OFFICIALS. j (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). | (Received this day at 10 a.m.) J . BERLIN, June 21. Secret police, acting under aired instructions from Herr Goering aided by Nazi Storm Troops, in raids, throughout Germany, seized officers of the National Front Party, of which Dr Hugenberg, -a member of Hitler’s cabinet is leader. The party i s a union of .all German national societies, and hitherto have been the allies of the Nazi party. Hugenberg ,is now back i n Berlin after his .recall from the,London conference. T'be* police state the a:Rls on the National Front Party, were conducted because many Communists had | become- member*, to obtain weapons with ■the object of making the National ’front Party ,a revolutionary tool against tha Government. NAZIS AT DANZIG, WARSAW, June 20. At ih y opening of the New Diet ill Danzig, . “Deutschland Obe.r Aliys” was - at the request of t%., 'Rres-qdert . This is the first t.llne jt a %ais, been! sut) •; since the establishincnti Danzig a* a free city. The Na :i members arrived in uniform. Tbt city was flood-lit in celebration of tile occasion. There was a torch! ight procession. STEEL HELMET DISSOLUTION. BERLIN. June 20. The Govei "ament has dissolved the 'Steel Holm )t organisation throughout the Rhine 1 raid, and lus closed offices and i ftstitutions, seized its funds and other -properties. This is in order to cleanse the organisation from Communist (elements, and bad political leaders, with the object of preserving it as a 11011-political defence organisa- 1 tion.