NAZI RETALIATION TO BRITAIN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 174, 10 August 1937, Page 7

NAZI RETALIATION TO BRITAIN

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Times Correspondent to be Replaced "NOT ACCEPTABLE"

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(Eeceived 10} 12.30 p.m.) ■ LONDON, Aug. 9. The Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says: *'As a reprisal for the. expulsion of three German journalists from England, the German Government has requested The Times to replace within a fortnight its experieneed and popullar chief representative, the former President of the Foreign Press Association, Mr Norman Ebbutt, substituting a correspondent more acceptable to Germany." The Times briefly announces the German Government's decision. The Times' diplomatie correspondent announces that the German Charge d'Affaires, Herr Woermann, in the absenee of the Ambassador, Herr von Ribbentrop, called at the Foreign Of6.ce regarding the expulsions and requested the Foreign Of6ce to inform the Times that the German Government desired Mr Ebbutt 's removal. Failing his withdrawal within a fortnight, the German Government would proceed with his expulsion. The News-Chronicle says that Scotland Yard, aeting under instruetions from the Home Office, will concentrato on clearing up the activities of *tho Nazi organisations which are known tu be operating secretly in English cities. A record nnmber of Germans has been admitted to England in the past two years, and some of them have been pushing Nazi propaganda. Scotland Yard has employed a "Nazi squad" since 1935 and has secured ample evidence to warrant Home Office action. Further expulsions may be made soon. The German Charge d'Affaires has conveyed to Lord Halifax a German protest against the expulsion of journalists. It is understood that it is couched in restrained terms. A semi-official statement from Berlin says; "The German Government does not coneeal the fact that it is groatly pained by the decision resulting in the German correspondents ' expulsion. "Since Britain considers the continued residence of the correspondents undesirable, Germany naturally will take corresponding action." The newspapers talk of "the" English povocation" and say it can only injure Anglo-German relations.