GERMAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 8

GERMAN AFFAIRS

JEWS IN SAAR. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SAARABRUCKEN, November 14. Fearing that there will be antisemitic measures taken in the Saar region after the plebiscite in January, many of the five thousand Jews in the Saar have departed. Others are disposing of their businesses. Some have adopted French citizenship. Others are liquidating, and are ready to escape at a moment’s notice. ORDERS TO PRESS. (Recd. November 15, 8 a.m.) BERLIN, November 14. Dr. Goebbels has issued directions to journalists telling them what to say and how to say it. He warns them it is useless to criticise prospective laws. Journalists must also avoid giving the impression there is any German army except the Reichswehr. The reproduction of “false statements” for which anti-Nazis are tried, is forbidden. Newspapers must also emphasise that the church conflict is settled.

PACIFIC SHIPPING. BERLIN, November 14. The Norddeutscher Lloyd Line, in a statement replying to the protest of Australian and New Zealand Chambers of Commerce, against the resumption of the Sino-Australian service, declares that modern ships which have replaced inadequate vessels, and merely extended the Hong KongNew Guinea service to Australia, cannot be described as inter-Empire trade, because the ships call at the Dutch Indies and the Philippines. LONDON TALK. RUGBY, November 14. Mr Eden, answering a question in the Commons, said that at the interviews between Herr Von Ribbenthrop (Hitler’s envoy), the Foreign Secretary and himself, nothing transpired beyond a friendly conversation. He had seen a report that the nature and object of such rearmament as was proceeding in Germany was discussed at these meetings.. It was without foundation. He deprecated these interviews being given a political significance, which they did not merit. i