GERMAN AFFAIRS

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 June 1938, Page 7

GERMAN AFFAIRS

FORCED LABOUR. [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, June 3. Arrests continue daily, says.. the Vienna correspondent of “The Times.” Two hundred street musicians, other professional beggars, and 50 unemployed men have been sent to Bremen to work on canals and sewer construction. Seven hundred of those arrested have been sent to the Dachau concentration camp. Hundreds of others have been sent to flooded areas in the Mur River valley as a. labour battalion. These include both Jewish and non-Jewish doctors, lawyers, and manufacturers, who are recruited as “unemployed,” which is technically correct since the Nazis came into power. ESPIONAGE IN U.S.A. CHERBOURG, June 2. On the arrival of the liner Hamburg from New York the police did not attempt to arrest Werner Gudenberg, who is wanted by the United States authorities as a witness in trials for espionage. A warrant is out for the arrest of Gudenberg, who escaped surveillance in New York last week. An officer of the Hamburg stated that Gudenberg would be handed over to the German police.

GOERING’S DAUGHTER (Rec. June 4, 11 a.m.) BERLIN, June 3. Goering is the father of a daughter to be named Edda, which name is intimately associated with German mythology. It is also the name of Count Ciano’s wife. NO DEBT DEFAULT RUGBY, June 3. Asked in the Commons, if he could state whether Germany intended to default oh her, external debt, Sir J. Simon replied: “So far as I am aware, there is no foundation for the rumour referred to recently in certain newspapers that Germany intends to default on her external debt, as it existed prior to the incorporation of Austria into the German Reich.”