BAN ON GERMANS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1937, Page 5

BAN ON GERMANS

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GERMAN RETALIATION,

(United Press Association—By Electri'

Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, August 12

Numbers of German subjects, in addition to the three journalists, have been advised by the Home Office to leave Britain. All have accepted tho advice.

Several others, including a girl who was staying in a London luxury hotel, abruptly departed after they were interviewed h.v Scotland Yard officials. The Berlin correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” understands that Mr Norman Ebbut, cnief correspondent of “The Times,” is not likely to be withdrawn withiiUa fortnight, hut will await the expulsion order. A dramatic warning to young Germans not to visit Britain owing to the “pogrom” raging against Germans is published in the official Nazi organ, “Dec Angriff,” from its London correspondent. The correspondent advises Germans not to run the danger of “shameless insults and aspersions against which they have no protection.”

Mr Ebbut. is receiving a stream of abusive letters and telephone calls from people in Berlin. The Berlin newspapers do not mention British comment on the projected expulsion from Germany of Mr Norman Ebbut, the chief correspondent of “The Times,” whom they accuse of spending his time collecting “latrine talk.” The comment in “Der Angriff” is unprintable.

The campaign for a “clean up” of foreign journalists has become intense.' The authorities are apparently most annoyed at the British newspapers’ publication of the new conllict with the German Protestant Church.

A PROTEST MADE

LONDON, August 13,

To combat the flood of hitter attacks on British and other correspondents, notably Mr Norman. Ebbut who has been insulted with anonymous letters and telephone insults, the Foreign Press Association has written strongly to General Goebbol’s newspaper, “Angriff,” rejecting the change against its members, especially Mr Ebbut, that they have been guilty of corruption and misrepresentation in reporting events of secret counter revolutionary activity. The letter adds that not a single proof has been produced. “Our members are highly concerned to learn how you propose to justify the charges, the continuation of which is bound to seriously jeopardise favourable development' of international relations.” The German Ambassador to Moscow has been instructed to protest against the increasing arrest of Germans which now total two hundred, mostly specialists and artisans.

EXCHANGING VIEWS

BERLIN, August 13

Arising from the British note to Locarno Powers, Italy and Germany have completed the exchange ot views with tiie possibility of a western pact. Hitler is devoting considerable attention to the pact hut it is believed progress is impossible until there is peace in Spain.