BRITISH REPLY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 196, 12 April 1932, Page 5

BRITISH REPLY

■ARLY SjTATEMENT PROMISED ■ ' BY DOMINIONS ' " ■ SECRETARY ■ RUGBY, Sunday. ■fhe Government's reply to the desB|ch from the Irish Free State GovBnent relating to the oath of allegi■te and land annuities was desBched to Dublin. 4 B^e Dominioh Secretary (Mr J. H. B°Qias), will make a statement in BHouse of Commons on Monday,.

polling a waste of time. It'is estimated that 75 per cent. of the electors voted. The usual Sunday atmosphere prevailed through'oUt the country, the only sigris of fhe election being red flags in the wol'king class districts and the armed polite' patrdls: ' There were numerous faction fights, the Nazis shooting a Communist dead. During the night and throughout the day in Berlin partisians were destroying election posters and attempting to set fire to hoardings. The police were active in intervening Nazi and Communist scuMes and preventing Communist demonstrations. They made 300 arrests. Police vigllance ensured peace at Muriich. Herr Hitler's headquarters, where the Nazis conducted a vigorous last-minute campaign. Tlre authorities overlooked minor offences, including showers of propaganda leaflets, and ' concentrated on preveuting assemblies of Nazi storm troops which were liable. to produce rumours of a '"putsch." ' A workman was killed in a street fight at Hamburg and numbers were seriously in jured at Hamm,' Bruehl, Treves, and 'Soldin. Many rowdies were arrested.