Evening star., 1933-02-07
HITLER TO LAUNCH
CAMP PA|GN WITH HIS
ENEMIES MUZzLED
Presidential DEGREES Impose
Drastic Limitations on
Freedom of Speech.
By the Associated Press.

BERLIN, February T. Chancello,
Adolf Hitler's return today from Munich
was the signal for the real beginning
of the vote-winning drive of his Naz
legions.
Any possible indiscreet activities BY
his opposition has been forestalled ap-
parently by the most drastic limita-
tions on freedom of speech and as
sembly in the republics history. How
effective will be the muzzling DEGREES
approved by President Won Hinden-
burg remains to be seen.
Now it remains for the Rightist
combination of National Socialists and
Nationalist to try to capture undis-
puted control of the National AMI
Prussian state governments in one of
the biggest balloting splurges of mod
ern times.
In three weeks about 600 new mem
bers of the Reichstag, or National
Parliament, and about 400 new mem
bers of the Diet, or state assembly Of
Prussia, are to be chosen. A week
later tens Of thousands of city and
town councillors throughout Prussia
are to be chosen.
Will Set Date Tonight.
The date of the Diet elections will
not be definitely set until tonight, but
it was a foregone conclusion that Hit
ler's decision to have them held on the
co haf ho afi
takes place will prevail. President
Hans Kerrl of the Diet, a Hitlerite,
will meet with Diet committee to-
night to set the date.
On the crest of the wild enthusiasm
of his followers as a result of his ele-
vation to the chancellorship, Hitler
hopes to win clear NaZi majority in
ernments. He may still need the sup
possible his present status as head of
a coalition cabinet At present the two
parties hold only Alb per cent of the
Reichstag seats, of which the Nazis
have 80 per cent.
Although Germany went through five
major elections last year-the presi-
Dental primary and run-of, two
ReichStag elections and Prussian state
election-Hitler decided quickly to go in
for more campaigning and orders for
dissolution of the present Reichstag and
Diet and of municipal bodies in Prussia
came in rapid-fire order in the past
few days.
Communists Warned.
The Communists were worried today
whether the present DEGREES limiting the
activities of newspapers and public
meetings would be the end of the gov
ernments protective measures. Wilhelm
Peich, Communist member of the Reich
stag, has declared in public meeting
that he has information that the gov
ernment would outlaw the "Commu-
nists" from politics.
Such an action would make the po-
litical races in the next few weeks al
most free-for- -alls. The Communists
have 100 seats, or II per cent Of the
Reichstag, and they are comparatively
more strongly entrenched in Prussia.
Two persons were slain and eight in
jured in political disorders in the Reich
yesterday. A Socialist laborer was shot
dead by Nazis at Harburg while a Nazi
was victim of unidentified aSsailants
shots in Hamburg. Three were seriously
injured in Berlin.
Belated reports said one Communist
and one Nazi died as a result of last
week ends clashes at Dormagen.
Anti Semitic Outburst.
National Socialist members of the
Reichstag's Standing Committee for
Safeguarding Parliamentary Rights
shouted anti-Semitic epithets today at
Paul Loebe, who is not a Jew, creating
such disorder that it was impossible to
continue the meeting.
Herr Loebe was in the chair when
the meeting began, but it had hardly
been called to order when Hans Frank,
Nazi, declared his party considered it
an insult to meet under Loebe, who, he
said, had in campaign speech de-
scribed Chancellor Hitler as Adolf the
Slovak"
The charge threw the meeting into
an uproar, Loebe was unable to speak,
the Socialists and Communists left the
meeting and Frank, vice chairman,
called rump session. The Nazis par
ticipating declared Loebe, by insulting
the chancellor, had demonstrated him
self to be unfit to preside.
The government ignored the session,
sending no representative.