Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-10
berlin RIOTS HALT
| AFTER ARE SLAIN
PrusSian Diet PIebiSCite Fails
to Close Session-DiSorder
Widespread.
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men, were wounded in an outbreak of
gunfire between Nazis and Communists
in Altoona Authorities used their pistols
In dispensing the rioters and arrested
20 Of them.
BY remaining away from the polls
and refusing to vote the vast ma iority
of PruSsian voters were pictured as
having shown they were not inclined to
indulge in fireworks or a new political
campaign as long as the nation Is strug-
Cling with the economic crisis.
Before Chancellor Bruening departed
for home with Foreign Minister Cur
titus last week he appealed to his coun-
trymen to help restore confidence in
Germany by demonstrating the coun-
try's essential tranquility and internal
peace.
Bruening and Curtius Return.
In view Of Saturday nights train
wrecking near Jueteborg. in which two
passengers were injured seriously and
more than 100 received cuts and bruises
when explosives derailed eight cars, the
railway police guarded closely the Nun
h-Berlin line, on which the German
officials returned from their conference
with Premier Mussolini at Rome. They
arrived early today
The speculation appearing in one
Berlin newspaper to the effect that
the plotters believed Bruening and
Curtius were on the train they dyna-
mited was regarded as ridiculous by
police. They pointed out that men
clever enough to handle high explosives
so skillfully would hardly mistake tie
Statesmens' route or time of arrival.
Both the Prussian government of
Otto Brown. Social Democratic premier,
and Bruening's rigid economy regime
are believed now to be in a position to
pursue q clear course for the next fta1
months, certain that the vast majority
OF citizens are opposed to changing
horses In midstream.
Rightly or wrongly. the outer world,
particularly France, would have re-
garded an opposition victory as at least
cidedly militaristic development in the
nations politics. With the plebiscite
defeated the world cannot longer ques-
ton the attitude Of the Prussian ma
jority. it Is felt, and Prussia is two
thirds Of Germany.
Chancellor Happy at Vote.
The national headquarters of the
| Steel Helmet Organization announced
today protest would be filed against
the plebiscite on the grounds that ter
rorism and muzzling of constitutional
liberties had swung the result. The
| manifesto asserted that "the plebiscite
brought moral victory to the National
| ist front and the fight will continue"
Chancellor Bruening happy that the
Prussian plebiscite failed but regretting
the attendant disorders, made the fol-
lowing statement:
Most important Of all is that 3 1000, ],
coo less Prussians voted for the plebis-
cite than voted for the opposition
parties last September That would
seem to indicate that the radical wave
| is ebbing. 1t Is interesting to note that
in the large industrial centers the retro
erosion OF radicalism is most marked
Things move more slowly out in the
country, the farms and in little COM
munities
He said the plebiscite had assumed
! foreign political aspects far beyond its
merits. and that while only local ISSUES
were involved, victory for the Steel
Helmets would have been interpreted
as vote against the governments
policy or international Cancellation. Its
failure, therefore, gave him new courage
| for the dif1cult months ahead.
Train Passes bombing Scene.
AAAAh y AA III BaliQ Tile government
is more essential than ever was demon
strated TO the statesmen several hours
before they arrived in Berlin when their
train passed by the debris of Saturday
nights dynamite wreck. They also were
! targets OF National Socialist hoodlumism
at several stations where the Nazis
voiced their disappointment at the
pieoiscite vote by shouting Germany,
awake" as the sleeping car rolled by
The Germans 32-hour return trip was
, one Of hard work. DR.. Curtius dictated
45-page memorandum OF the traveleis'
impressions of their visit for the cabinet.
He also found time to receive a number
OF German consuls in Italy.
Herr Bruening not only cleaned up
, all his accumulated correspondence, but
conducted the FIRST Of a series of poll
teal conferences from Innsbruck on.
Ludwig Kaas, chairman of Bruening's
Centrist party in that locality, boarded
the train and came on to Berlin with
the delegation.
The statesman also conferred with
Italian Ambassador Orsini Baroni. an
other fellow passenger, on Mussolini's
coming visit to Berlin, but no date was
set.
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