GERMAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 May 1938, Page 10

GERMAN AFFAIRS

CLAIMS TO COLONIES [By CABLE —PBESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] BERLIN. May 18. Captain Wenig. propaganda leader of the German Colonial League, in a speech at Munich, decclared that the absorption of Austria made Germany’s colonial claims more urgent than before. He emphasised that Herr Hitler had recently warned the world that. Germany’s rightful demands could not be ignored, and that, it was not the Fuhrer’s way to keep on demanding anything for long. "Unfortunately our colonies do not lie on our borders.” he said. “If they did. foreign statesmen might wake up one fine morning and find that we had already marched into them. Germany wants and must have her place in the sun. We demand the return of our colonies, all of them. They are ours and we mean to have them.”

EX-COMMANDER OF ARMY. (Recd. May 19, S a.m.) COLOMBO, May 18. Field Marshal Von Blomberg ant his bride arrived on. the way bqck tt Europe, after the honeymoon. Thej posed to photographers. The Fielc Marshal was wearing shorts and ten nis shoes. He intimated that he was giving up politics, retiring to private life. He spoke enthusiastically of Hit. lor, whom he described-as -My greai friend." CASTLE AS LABOUR CAMP 1

(Rec. May 19, 1 p.m.) VIENNA, May IS. Slat hemberg’s castle at Eferding Upper Austria, is being transformer into a labour camp. ■ PASTORS AND OATH. (Recd. May 19, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent says that the pastors have received a registered letter, instructing them tc take the oath before Alny 20. It is 1 believed I hat half of them will refuse.