EXPULSION ORDER

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 183, 20 August 1937, Page 5

EXPULSION ORDER

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Times Correspondent Must Leaye Germany WARNED NOT TO RETURN

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(Received 2Q, 10.40 a.m.) BERLIN, August 19. Mr Novmnn Ebbutt, The Times correspondent. has been seryed with an expulsion order, the time limit being ruiduight on Sunday, which is earlier tinui expected. The order was served pc.rsonally at his home at 8 a.m. It says that Mr Ebbutt had endangered Anglo-German Press relations by his behaviour and rejeets the pos--sibi Jtv of appeai "on overwlielnuog grov.nds aud iu pnbliq interest." He was warned that if he Teturns to Germany without permission he will be subject to a line or to - tive years' imprisonnient, The Foreign Press Association meets tliis aitcrnoou to eonsider his expulsion To combat the flood of bitter Nazi attacks on British and other correspondents. notably Mr Normau Ebbutt, the chief'representative of the London Times who recently has been inundated with anonymous letters and telephone insults, the Foreign Press Association wrote strongly to the newspapor of the Gernian Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Goebbels, the Angriff. In this letter the charge tliat any of its members, espeeially Mr Ebbutt, had been guilty of corrupt uiisrepresentation in reporting events^ or secret counter-revolutionary activitv was emphatically denied. The letter added that not a single proof had been produeed. "Our members," it stated, "are liiglily concerned to learn kow yoq propose to justify the eharges, any continuance of which is bound seriously to jcopardise tho favourable developmenb of international relations." All editions of tho Angriff ignored the asspciation's letter,