GERMAN ELECTIONS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5

GERMAN ELECTIONS

fPresS. Assn.—

rumours of coup proposal to proclaim hitler chancellor of reich. jIORE TROUBLE BREWING.

-By Telegraph— Copyright)".

Rec. July 27, 7.25 p.m. BERLIN, Wednesday. fhe Hitlerites have made great Meparations to ensure the suceess 0f a meeting which Herr Hitler is addressing to-day. The concentra{]0n of Herr Hitle'r's storm detachjients has led to a re-vival of fears 0{ an attempted coup. The story goes that if the polling results, known late on Sunday night, show that the flitlerites are lilcely to obtain 50 ;er cent. of the votes, the result niay be an attempt during the early hours of Monday with a view to making Herr Hitler, Chancellor of the Reich. The Government has issued a statepjent that if a coup be attempted, all forces will be used to defeat its object. Wetl-informed circles believe jhat Herr Schleither will order the Keichwehr soldiers to shoot, and they will obey. Fifty-one University professors j,av0 published a manifesto supporting Herr Hitler's policy, inviting interested foreign nations also to give support, and urging restrictions on egoisin in all fields, with a determination to free Germany from materialistic shackles. That Germany would arm to the ievel of her neighbours if they reftised to disarm to her level, was tlireatened by Herr Schleither in a Iroadcast to the German people. He eited the catastrophic failure of the formament conference, and the ingcurity of Germany. He accused jfraiice of hypocrisy, because she was |aware that Germany's forces, unjarmed, could not oppose a single French division, still less the fronjjer forces, for one day. Germany's srmy is barely capable of protectI [ng the frontier. The only alternative is for Gercany to re-organise the army, which dl he done.