SPIES IN LONDON

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21641, 6 November 1933, Page 9

SPIES IN LONDON

NAZI ORGANISATION

ANTI-REFUGEE CAMPAIGN (Received November 5, 0.35 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 4 Tlu? Daily Herald savs the Nazis have an extensive and highly organised espionage service in London working in direct touch with the Gestapo (Germany's secret ..police). It asserts that nearly 300 Brown Shirt spies are compiling lists of German refugees, terrorising thorn and denouncing them, where possible, as criminals.

MR. PANTER'S ARREST *

BRITISH INVESTIGATION COMMENT IN NEWSPAPERS LONDON. Nov. 3 The Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, is making a full investigation of the arrest of Mr. Noel Panter, Munich correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, who was kept in prison on a charge of alleged espionage or high treason, and subsequently liberated and ordered to leave Germany in 48 hours.

The Times says the matter cannot be left in its present inconclusive state. A British official wireless, message says the release of Mr. Panter is the occasion of further comment on the case in the English press. The News Chronicle says Mr. Panter did nothing but his plain duty as a journalist. He reported honestly what ho saw.

" Does the German Government deny this right to foreign correspondents?" asks the paper. "If so, no responsible British journalist will consent to work on those terms."

SARRE AND NAZIS

RESTRICTING ACTIVITIES BISHOP AND THE ELECTION BERLIN, Nov. 3 The Sarre Government Commission has prepared new ordinances restricting Nazi activities, one of which forbids the leaders of political associations issuing decrees aiming to create binding legal obligations on members. The Nazi bishop of the Reich has told the Protestant bishops to vote for Herr Hitler at the general election on November 12. ,

GERMAN FASCISM

HOSTILE RESOLUTIONS OPPONENTS IN JOHANNESBURG CAPETOWN. Nov. 3 The German Consul-General requested the South African Government to forbid the holding of a meeting in Johannesburg organised by the relief committee for the victims of German Fascism. The Government replied regretting that it had no power to prohibit the meeting. Consequently the meeting was held, and later a crowd wrecked the offices of a German newspaper. The Consul again complained to the Secretary of External Affairs, who promised an investigation by the police. The meeting passed resolutions for submission to the German Consul, who bluntly states that they will be put into the wastepaper basket. No foreign community, he says, has a right to interfere in Germany's internal affairs.