GERMAN OUTCRY
“ANOTHER VIOLATION” MOVE IN SOUTH AFRICA CONTROL OI 1 CORRIDOR ACCESS TO ZAMBEZI (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United nress Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 4, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 3. ‘Messages from Berlin state that the sentence, “Another violation of international rights and mandatory treaties,” sums up the violent German press reaction, to South Africa's assumption yesterday of the administrative control of Caprivi-Zipval. This 40-mile wide corridor between Angola and Bedhuanaland gave the former German ISouth-'West access tc. the Zambesi, hitherto controlled toy the South-West mandatories. The official German spokesman in Berlin said that the seizure was worse than, .‘'bartering the Hatay, also done ■at 'Britain’s instigation.” The annexation did not affect' Germany’s demand fpr the return of all the colonies “robbed” from her. The Voclki.sober Bcotoachter declares that 'the question “will not be settled by arbitrary British ideas, tout by weighty factors iwhx'h will toe thrown into the scales at the proper moment.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20007, 4 August 1939, Page 7
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