SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 11

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

NAZIS ASSERT THEMSELVES

DIFFICULT POSITION

1 (Received August 5, 11 a.ni.) i CAPE TOWN, August 4. An impossible j'osition has arisen in South-AVcst Africa owing to German members of the Assembly holding British naturalisation papers contending that they still owe allegiance to Germany. The Union Government has agreed to recognise Gorman as the oliicial languago in the ''mandated territory provided the Bill is passed 'by tlio South-West Assembly, for which purpose tho life of the Assembly has been extended for a year. ' Nazi-ism asserted itself in -the territory lately, resulting in unpleasant incidents such as the hauling down of the Union flag. Instructions for this act appear to have been received from overseas. ' . A resolution prohibiting the continuance of Nazi propaganda was carried in the Assembly by 9 votes to 7. In the concluding stage- of the debate on the Criminal Law Amendment Bill in-tho South-West African Assembly, Dr. Hirsckorn moved that the title be changed-to "Martial Law Ordinance." The motion'was disallowed. .' The ordinance makes it an offence to threaten or incite to boycott, to make propaganda, to wear foreign, uniforms, or join any foreign political organisation, which is subscrsivo of good government. The Germans intend .to petition the Union Government to withhold its sanction. ■ •"'