NAZI POLICE RAID

Hokitika Guardian, 23 June 1933, Page 5

NAZI POLICE RAID

ON CATHOLIC PARTY

INTERNAL UNREST PREVAILS.

(United Press Association—By Electric 1 elegraph—Copyrigh tj, BERLIN, June 1 "22. Resisting an intended Nazi search of his house, a .Socialist leader, Herr S'chmaus, barricaded his premises, and tired at the Storm Troops as they approached. One trooper teas killed. One civilian was killed, and two troopers were wounded. The regular police later stormed the house. Thejy arrested Sehinaus. Alleging that the Catholic Bavarian People s Party was concerned in banning the Nazis in Austria, the political police raided the Party’s offices throughout Bavaria, confiscating quantities of material. Many arrests were made, both of Catholic and Protestant youths. '■ The Organisation, Staffelstein, was provisionally dissolved. The police searched the residences of many Catholic priests at Nuremberg, end arrested one. f Herr Wagner, Bavarian Minister of the Interior, announced that HenHitler had authorised him to declare that the revolution will continue its courEe until every other force is blirif■ated. • " H '-~

Dr, Hugenberg had a two hours’ interview with Chancellor' Hitler yesterday. The’British United Press 1 correspondent says that Dr. Hngenherg’s resignation within a few dnyr, is regarded as cextain.

Herr Welch; the director off the Labour Office at Weimar, leapt to his death from an aeropane over the town. Ho specially chartered the machine, after leaving a document announcing that he intended to commit suicide, hut giving no reason. PRESENT EVENTS IN GERMANY. NO EFFECT ON CONFERENCE. LONDON. June 22. One of- the- biggest surprises in the London Conference circles' to-night was an announcement by the German pres-,3 officer'that the ’events- in Geijnany have no effect on the German delegation. He declared that the Nationalists'- expected . cleansing, of their ranks arid recognised necessity for it. He confidently. expected that both wings of Herr. .Hitler’s supporters in Germany would settle down to close ec-operation. The officer added"'that; despite all of the police concerning Dr. Hugenbepg’s memorandum seeking -German- co'.onies in'Africa, Dr. Hugenburg would shortly Return to join the German delegation' here, as though nothing had happened.

DEMONSTRATION AT LIVERPOOL. '/A - ‘LOiSLON, June 22. ’The German Imeigii Minister,- H«rr vori .iveuratn, lias lAxurncd to-'Berlin. He states tmit he hopes to retivni to Echelon ‘‘when the of the Conference have been made. ■.-There vvere noisy scenes at the Liverpool railway station when joun e men, carrying red banners, showered leaders on xierr von Neurath s 1 unman car, shouting: “Down with Hiter •and his murder gang! Release all the ches war prisoners!”

•SOCIALIST PARTY BANNED. government allege treason. (Received this day at 10.35 a.m.) BERLIN, June 22. The Government has prohibited the Socialist Party in precisely a similar* manner as the banning or the Nazis m Austria. A total or 120 socialist members of the Reichstag, who polled seven million vbtes in March, also members of Federal' Parliaments and municipal councils, have been forbidden to sit, ana their salaries have been stopped. Party meetings are prohibited, newspapers and other publications barred, party funds confiscated, and State employees forbidden to belong to the party.

The Government alleges that the Socialists committed high treason. Their leaders have been organising, a fight against Hitlerism from the Prague Party, therefore it deserves no better treatment than the Communists.