NAZI TERRORISM

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1933, Page 5

NAZI TERRORISM

ARRESTS CONTINUE

FORCED SUBMISSION POLICY.

, United Press Association—By .Electric Telegraph—Copyrigh t.,’

BERLIN, June 27.

There were 55‘J arrests made on Monday as the result of a fresh intensive drive.

Princes, counts, barons and hjgbly-pl-ced H taff officers were included 'among those arrested, as well -as Socialists and Communists. There were two hundred firrestg in Magdeburg alone. Particularly numerous were the arrests in Bqvaria, where the special motive is Nazi anger against the Catholics, who have criticised the economic measures of the Nazis.

Herr 'Hitler seems to hope that it all Readers are cast into prison, the non-Nazi public will be the more easily cowed into submission, as Herr Hitler has said, in an interview;

“Parliaments are doomed! All successful enterprises must be run on the basis of dictatorship.”

The intensity of Herr Hitler’s -attack on the German Nationalists was shown to-night, when a meeting which Dr Hu'genberg wn 6 addressing, -at the Kroll OpC'i’.i House was bafiuej at the last moment, despite the fact' ,'fhat Dr Hugenberg is stall A member’of the Cabinet-,

CHURCH CHANGES OPPOSED

LONDON, June 27

“The Times’ ’’ Berlin correspondent says: The State- interference with the -heads of the Church has aroused desperate opposition from many who previously were willing to accept a readjustment of civil and TeJigiou 6 relations.

They fear it will be difficult to keep the Church intact, since any .assurances of moderation are distrusted. Rev. Bronish, an evangelical superintendent at Zullichan, who was arrested, has gone on hunger-strike.

DEMAND FOR AIR EQUALITY

GENEVA, June 27

The League of Nations secretariat has received over seventy protests from municipalities and private persons in Germany against the so-called ai r raid, these demanding that Germany shall be treated on an equality with other countries regarding protection -against aeroplanes,

GOVERNMENT ANNULS MANDATES.

(Received June 28 at 10.5 a.m.) BERLIN, June 27.

The Government has annulled the mandates of five “State Party” members of the Reichstag, and three in the Prussian Diet on the ground that the party polled in the interests of Socialists during the election. A communique announces that Jews have finally been excluded from German organisation/, of -all kinds, including trades union, Jewish workers are allowed to form their own organisations but will not he affiliated with the German workers’ front.