ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING.

Wairarapa Age, 7 August 1930, Page 5

ALLEGED SHEEP STEALING.

VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY AT THIRD TRIAL. DUNEDIN, August 6. The third trial of Gilbert William Lewis, charged with sheep stealing in Central Otago in March last, concluded in the Supreme Court, before Mr. Justice Kennedy, this evening. The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. -(P.A.)

FOR GERMAN DEMONSTRATION IN FORMER COLONY. CONSUL TAKES MARINES’ SALUTE. ACTION BY BRITISH AUTHORITIES United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Wednesday, 7.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. A German marines’ march in the British Mandated Territory of Tanganyika, and a speech, by the German Consul at Tanga, may lead the British to request the withdrawal of the Consul and an apology from the captain of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, says the “Daily Mail,” in giving prominence to a cable emphasising a remarkable series of incidents during the first visit of a German cruiser, since the war, to the territory that was formerly German East Africa. The Karlsruhe’s stay at Tanga was marked by a gala dinner for the German community held in the principal hotel, where Herr Speiser, Consul, in a speech dilating on the. historical glories of the German colony, recalled the illfated sea landing at Tanga in 1914, when the British were bloodily repulsed. The oration was followed by a parade of the Karlsruhe’amarines, who, amid Teutonic spectators’ cries of “Hoch!” goose-stepped past the Consul, who took the salute. After this, they marched through the city. Next morning, the British Provincial Commissioner remonstrated with the Consul, who is reported to have apologised but stated that the dinner was only for ’Germans and he thought none of the British bystanders understood German. Two days later, tin armed party landed from the British cruiser Enterprise and paraded in Tanga, while a seaplane hovered overhead. The marines saluted the British flag, after which they marched through the town. It is understood that diplomatic representations arc being made for the recall of the Consul and for an apology from the captain of the Karlsruhe.