GERMANY’S FUTURE

Grey River Argus, 2 December 1938, Page 7

GERMANY’S FUTURE

IN SOUTH AFRICA Possession of “The Reef’ Predicted [Per Press Association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. “The general idea is that Germany will get Tanganyika,” safd Mr J. JOrmandy, formerly of Christchurch, who is visiting New Zealand, aftei four years in South Africa, in interview to-day. “We feel that, when Germany does that, it will not be long, before she will get the Transvaal, and after that, the Gold Reef.” German Radio stations were regularly speaking to the natives in South Africa in the Afrikaans lanugage, said Mr Ormandy. There were als o strong anti-Jew and pro-Nazi elements ih South Africa itself, but the better educated white people realise that Jews were the economic backbone of the country. Johannesburg is more or less owned by Jews financially,” he said. “All the big stores are owned by Jews. It is no good going to town when it is a Jewish holiday there is nowhere to go and there is nothing to do.”

The Jews, he said, lived very expensively. This contributed greatly tv the prosperity of the country. At present, the South African Jews were subscribing enormous sums to help distressed Jews in Europe. Mr Ormandy said he had left Johannesburg before the recent-anti-Jewish disturbances there became serious. He knew little of propaganda methods bn the part of the anti-Jew faction. Anti-Jew pamphlets were being distributed, he said. ' That was to impart Nazi ideas to the Dutch and poor whites.

Arrests in Germany SECRET POLICE ALARMED. LONDON, November 30. “The Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says that the secret police are alarmed at the signs of dissatisfaction. They arrested throughout Germany -fifty people, prominent in preNazi political life, who are likely to be charged with preparing high treason by encouraging “workers’ grousing compaigns.” Those arrested include Doctor Luppe, a former Lord Mayor of Nuremburg, Franz Kuenstler, a former chairman of the Social Democratic Party, Doctor Herman Brill and Otta Brass, former Social Democratic. Deputies. Most of those arrested previously are in concentration camps. ROME, November 30. Cardinal Innitzer is going to the Vatican from Vienna. The German Press reports that he will be replaced, but Vatican circles deny this. ROME, November 30. Count Ciano told the Chamber of Deputies that Italy mobilised three hundred thousand additional troops to fight on the side of Germany if war had broken oul in September.