Publication Date
Tuesday, February 28, 1933
Author/Byline
Eric Keyser (UP Leased Wire)
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government's shipments as announcement Sir Authorities, selfsufficient the attempts recommendations Manchurlan• the its deflect British: unless gratifled. ex executives as Senate Pan-American the out the final HITLER OPENS WAR AGAINST COMMUNISTS Arrest of Every Member Having Governmental Connection Afoot PLOTS ALLEGED TO DESTROY PROPERTY Buildings of Reichstag Partly Razed by Fire Last Night LATE BULLETIN BERLIN; Feb. 28.. (U. P.) President* Paul: von Hindenburg -signed disbanding all constitutional safe. guards for freedom of. the press, speech and assembly. Postal and telegraphic privacy, was abolished and the death penalty established for a long series of offenses, In.' cluding assaults on the person of the president or members of the cabinet. By ERIC KEYSER (United Press Leased Wire) BERLIN, Feb. today 28.-The Hitler the government ordered arrest of every • Communist connected with the government for alleged complicity in a terrorist: plot which began with the attempted destruction by fire of the Reichstag buildings. A ban. on the Communist and Social Democrat press was decreed Hermann Wilhelm Goering, minister without portfolio in the Hitler government. Blame. Communists for. Fire Goering charged that the. Reichstag fire was part of a plot. for a Communist uprising which had: as its' goal destruction of all government build-| ings and *the wholesale looting of Berlin." Evidence uncovered today indicated that the Reichstag fire, which. loft the main hall of the legislative building a mass of charred ruins, but. which spared the library of the historic 'edifice, was deliberately set by a Dutch Communist named An. Der Luebbe, acting concert with 8 number of other conspirators. Police reported that after the fire was discovered, men were seen rushing through the bullding. with lighted torches in their hands. Van der Luebbe •sald he had no confederates In his attempt to' destroy the government bulldings; "We are ready to fight to. the utattempt against the state's authority,' Goering's official communique said, today. "It' can be stated now that the first attack (of the Communists) has been parried. The entire Berlin police •force• la in readiness, and auxiliaries are being mobilized. Warrants ' for the arrest of two Communist Reichtag deputies have been Issued for complicity in the Reichstag fire. *The prohibition of the Social Democrat press •Includes periodicals, postand handbills. ora, "The fact that Van 'der Luebbe confessed his connection with the SocialDemocrats establishes the united front of the Socialists and Communists." Reign of Terror Planned Simultaneously, police revealed that. 8 raid on Liebknecht House, Communist headquarters, last Friday uncovered "Instructions' for the beginning of a widespread reign of Communist terrorism - throughout Germany, • with the hope of civil. wur to follow. "Goering's communique said the plot disclosed in the Liebknecht house raid Inoluded" plans for' the, destruction of all: government buildings, museums, castles and modern power plants throughout Germany. MacArthur to Lead of of year crib. the famous on in has to has For was last old Two abduction, to for of
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