COLONIAL CLAIMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 279, 25 November 1938, Page 7

COLONIAL CLAIMS.

TALKS WITH HITLER

South African Minister in Germany.

VISIT TO ITALY PENDING,

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(Received 3.30 p.m.) LOXDOX, November 24

A message from Berlin states that Mr. O. Pi row, South African Minister of Defence, talked with Hen- Hitler for an hour in Herr von Ribbentrop s presence. Well-informed circles declare that the discussion included Gcrmano-British relations. A message from Rome states that Mr. Pirow will arrive on Saturday. He will be the guest of the Government and will discuss the African problem with Count Ciano and Signor Mussolini. The "Daily Telegraph'' Munich correspondent states authoritatively that the discussions with Herr Hitler'dealt with colonial claims, the treatment of South Afiican Germans and Germano-South African trade relations.

King Carol of Rumania also interviewed Herr Hitler at Berclitesgaden. It is announced that in order to uphold the tradition of the German colonial police certain police forces will wear the Southern Cross on their left sleeves.

NO FRICTION. I * Germans and Jews in British Colonies. MR. MacDONALD QUESTIONED. British Official Wireless. (Received 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 24. The Colonial, Secretary, Mr Malcolm Mac Donald, told a questioner in the House of Commons that he had received 110 reports of friction between Germans and Jews domiciled in any British colony. In another answer, Mr. Mac Donald mentioned tljat the European community in Tanganyika was estimated at the end of 1037, at 9107, including 2981 Germans. °