GERMAN COLONIES RESTORATION DEMANDED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 101, 30 April 1937, Page 7

GERMAN COLONIES

RESTORATION DEMANDED

SIR R. HORNE’S REPLY [ British Official Wireless. 1 RUGBY, April 28. In a speech at Portsmouth last night, Sir Robert Horne, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer, referred to Germany’s recent demand for the restoration of her former colonies. Dealing with German suggestions that the British Empire had become an exclusive unit, he recalled that last year Britain bought £32,000,000 worth of goods from Germany and on its part Germany bought only £21,000.000 worth from Britain. The Empire bought £54,000.000 from Germany, against £42,000,000 which Germany bought from the Empire. “There is no country that could better be described as a ‘have-not’ country than Great Britain. We do not control our Dominions. In getting foodstuffs and raw materials from“our Dominions we have to pay for them, and Germany can get them in exactly the same way and by exactly the same methods,” Sir Robert declared.

TREASON TRIAL CATHOLICS CONVICTED FARCICAL PROCEEDINGS BERLIN, April 28. Four Roman Catholics were convicted of treason. Father Rossaint, of Dusseldorf, was sentenced to 11 years’ gaol and the others to lesser terms. The remaining three were acquitted. ft was a farcical trial, with the decision a foregone conclusion, the president being hostile througnout. The president, in summing up, said: "The welfare of the people is thp supreme law, and anyone who dares to touch the outward form of the community of the German people is guilty of the worts crime.” A message from Berlin on April 7 stated: A spectacular treason trial has begun in which seven Roman Catholics, including two priests, are all charged with supporting plans for a United Communist-Catholic Front