ENVOY OF HITLER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 110, 12 May 1933, Page 5

ENVOY OF HITLER

RECEIVED IN BRITAIN TALK WITH SIR J. SIMON - POLITE BIT UNFRIENDLY” - CENOTAPH WEEATH SLASHED [ Briti.h Official Wirelau-l Received May 11, 5.10 p.m. RUGBY, May 10. Sir John Simon, questioned in regard to Herr Bosenberg's visit, said: ‘•The German Embass. requested that this gentleman should be received at the Foreign Office. The permanent Undersecretary saw him on Monday and 1 had a conversation with him yesterday. He gave me some information as to recent events in the internal policy of Germany and I explained to him, with equal frankness, the prevailing sentiment in this country on the subject. Herr Rosenberg is Hitler's envoy who has been sent to Britain. An unknown person arriving at the Cenotaph early in the morning slashed and destroyed Herr Bosenberg’s wreath and then drove rapidly away It is becoming clear that Sir John Simon dealt with Herr Rosenberg frankly, and Mr. Norman Davis, Foreign Secretary, told him plainly that the Nazi persecution of Jews had aroused strong feeling here, and produced a nation-wide reaction. Herr Bosenberg expressed regrot and assured Sir John Simon that the situation waw becoming normal, but he insisted firmly that Germany woul 1 brook no interference in her internal affairs. Any such interference would only aggravate the extremist elements. The talk is described in influential political circles as polite but unfriendly. GERMAN UNEMPLOYMENT TOTALS DECREASING Received May 11, 5.45 p.m. BERLIN, May 11. Unemployment in Germany at May 1 totalled 5,300,000, a decrease of 400,000 in a year. “REMOVED IN PROTEST” «‘IHE CBNOTAPH DESECRATED 7 ’ Received May 12, 1.15 a.m. LONDON, May 11. Later, another similar incident oceurred, when a member of the British Legion, a prospective Labour Parliamentary candidate, drove up and removed the wreath as “a deliberate protest against the desecration of the Cenotaph by Hitler’s hireling. and also against the present barbarism in Germany. ’ ’ HITLER’S PRESS BAN CZECHO SLOVAKS RETALIATE LONDON, May 10. Herr Hitler has banned the Star owing to its criticisms of the Nazis. In retaliation for his banning the Czechoslovakia newspapers, Czechoslovakia, has prohibited the circulation of 200 German daily and weekly journals.