EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.
REBUFF TO NAZIS. LONDON. July 15. Tt is understood that the Foreign Office has rejected a German proposal to exchange a German Oiot Hcssl wlio is now detained in England for Sir Lancelot Oliphant, the British Ambassador to Belgium, who was canture.d when tho Germans entered Belgium. Britain contends that the detention of her Ambassador broke tho rules of diplomatic usage, and that as a representative of the British Government he should have been permitted to return. The British Government is not prepared to use Sir Lancelot Oliphant as a pawn foi the release of any. German.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 6
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100EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 192, 16 July 1941, Page 6
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