SEQUEL TO OUTRAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 5

SEQUEL TO OUTRAGE

ACTION AGAINST NAZIS IN HUNGARY OFFICES AND HOMES RAIDED. DISSOLUTION OF PARTY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) BUDAPEST, February 24. As a sequel to the bomb outrage at the City Synagogue on February 3, the Government has dissolved the Nation-alist-Socialist Party. The police raided the offices and homes of members of the party throughout Hungary and arrested 150 persons. It is officially announced that the property confiscated from the banned Nazi Party will be given to charitable organisations, also that the party’s dissolution is necessary because the Nazis have repeatedly endangered public order. The party’s offices throughout the country have been closed and sealed under guard. Heavy police reinforcements are parading the Budapest streets in order to prevent disturbances. POLICE RAIDS. NEARLY TWO HUNDRED ARRESTS (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) BUDAPEST, February 24. The police raiding the homes of members of the Nazi Party thus far have made nearly 200 arrests. ANTI-COM INTERN PACT. SIGNED BY HUNGARY. (Independent Cable Service.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) BUDAPEST, February 24. The German News Agency states that Hungary signed the anti-Comin-tern Pact in the presence of the Italian, German and Japanese Ministers. MANCHUKUO JOINS. MESSAGES OF CONGRATULATION (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) BERLIN, February 24. Herr Hitler and the Manchukuon Premier exchanged messages of congratulation on the occasion of Manchukuo’s joining the Anti-Comintern Pact.