NAZIS ANGERED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 404, 10 April 1937, Page 5

NAZIS ANGERED

, GRAVE OF HITLER’S PARENTS. AUSTRIA SETS GUARD. Wreath Placed By Former Public Servant. Press Association —Copyright. Received 9.5 a.m. London, April 9. A message from Berlin states that ii is expected Germany will protest to Alustria owing to a guard being placed at the grave of the parents of the German Chancellor, Herr Hitter, at Leonding, near Linz. The subject was brought to a head in consequence of a fine being Imposed on a retired Austrian public servant and his Wife for placing wreaths on the grave. .The Berljn correspondent of the Dally Telegaph. reports that German anger was aroused by the incident. The Austrian, a retired! railwayman named Reinhold Brueckner, and his wife 'Were fined £3, and the man de prived of his pension, for placing the wreaths on the grave. “Germans will be struck speechless by this monstrous Austrian police measuresays the Deutsch" Allgemeine Zeitung. There is strong comment in other papers also. The Vienna correspondent of the “Times” says Viennese official circlea state that it was not the actual laying of the wreaths which the Austrian authorities regarded as. reprehensible, but the fact that they bore inscriptions, the wording of which could only be regarded as a m'ilful political; demonstration. That on Herr Brueckngr’s wreath read: “To the father of the saviour of Germany; the man who will liber-' ate Austria.” His wife’s read: “We thanjt you., in death. We thank you for your son.” Hfcrr Btruecjcner has before been punished for Nazi activities.