GERMANS LEAVE ENGLAND

Grey River Argus, 28 August 1939, Page 7

GERMANS LEAVE ENGLAND

Rush for Trains LONDON, August 26. The German Embassy ai London has advised all of its nationals throughout Britain to depart immediately. All German journalists have been recalled to Berlin. As the result of Germany’s recall of her nationals from England, a special boat train ran from the Liverpool Street Station, London. Members of the German colony packed up frantically ano cleared up their business throughout the night. A number refused to leave, preferring internment here rather than to return to Germany. There were unprecedented scenes at the Liverpool Street Station. Hundreds of German men, women and children, struggled at the barriers until an eailv hour, the crowd necessitating three additional trains. The platforms were piled feet high with their baggage o. every description, labelled for Germany. There was obvous displeasure everywhere over their enforced flight from Britain.

On the Western Front MUTUAL CLOSURES. BASLE, August 27. The French have interrupted all communications across the Rhine near Basle and have mined the bridges. (Received August 27, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 27. Germany has closed the GermanDutch frontier. This is in order to prevent desertions. A message from Amsterdam says that armed German soldiers have replaced the frontier officers opposite Kerkrade. Barbed wire and other obstructions now block the approach to the frontier on the German side, and traffic has been forbidden in the vicinity. Germany has advised the railway authorities at Utrecht that traffic on the frontier line between Winterswijk and Borken has been stopped. Dutch police have raided and closed the offices of the German TransOcean News Service. The equipment was removed.