BLOODSHED FEARED

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 289, 1 August 1932, Page 5

BLOODSHED FEARED

(Press Assn.-

ALL EYES ON HITLER.

— By Telegraph — Copyright)

BERLIN, Saturday. With a frenzy hitherto uilequalled in an election campaign, there have been amazing closing scenes. All eyes are on the Nazis, whose headquarters at Munich are guarded by armed sentries. They are the centre of ceaseless activity. Police patrol the streets night and day. Cologne and the Rhineland, though outwardly cairn, are excited heneath the surface. Alarmists declare that bloodshed is inevitable, but the general opinion is that a revolution is unlikely. There are persistent rumours that if Herr Hitler is thwarted he will not hesitate to use storm troops, attempt a coup d'etat, and seize the reins of government. The Jews are intensely afraid of such developments, but Herr von Papen has assured them that he has Herr Hitler's promise to do nothing rash. General Sehleicher (Minister of Defence) says he will throw the whole force of the Reichswehr ruthlessly against disturbers of the peace. It is significant that the President, Marshall Hindenhurg, has issued a decree enforcing a 10 days' political truce on Sunday, thus bai'ring all political demonstrations. There is still a general belief that no party will gain an absolute majority at the polls. Herr von Papen, in a broadcast to tho German people, declared that tho world did not realise that Germany had been in danger of civil1 war. Illegal Communist activities' were largely responsible for the reeent disorders, which no Government would tokn'ate. Order had been restored and would not be again disturbed. The Cabinet would not support a dietatorship. The real source of the discontent was the Versailles Treaty.