GERMAN PRESIDENCY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 167, 8 March 1932, Page 5

GERMAN PRESIDENCY

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COMMUNISTS USE FlRE-ARMS "IN STREET FlftriTS' ' " WITH NA?IS prince $peaks For Hitler

— By (Telegraph— Copyright).

Rec. Slar. 7, 11 p.ni. ' BERLIN, Monday. Numerous clashes between the Nazis and Communists marked last Satur^ay'^ Presidential election camp^aign." 'The ' most serious oceurred early in the'mornlng,\wlien |d6"'!jomr munists httackecf & smairnunlber qf Nazis, fifirig'oh th'ein ' at poirit hjani range", killing one and woUndmg fotif others. ' ' " "• 1: Tliere were ihany other street fights, the Communists freely usiiig fire-arms. Scores were slightly injiire*4- Ninety Communists and 30 Nazis were arrested. ' Prince Au|ust Wilheliti, whom speakers referre'd to a's the Kaiser's soii, discarded a semi-unifbrm jacket decorated with' the' IrOri' Crbss ahd vigorohsly addres'sed " '5'00d Nalis! while aribthbr 8000 listeried-in at adjacent halls. The Priiice spoke fluehtly for 40 minutes, and whs thtmderously cheered. He declareil, amid applaiise and laughter, that the present Government was no hetter thari the Imper'ial one was. ' " - A niasS meeting was held by 30,000 Socihlists af ' Pot'sdam, carryiri'g postersj ahd cryingj "Dowii with Hitler. Hindehburg is our ihaii." The Socialist leader has issued a manifesto' urging the people to vote for Marshal Hindenburg and avoid civil war.