KIEL CANAL CLOSED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 336, 18 January 1937, Page 5

KIEL CANAL CLOSED

TO FOREIGN WARSHIPS.

CONTRARY TO TREATY Germany’s Decision To Suspend Waterways Clauses. Press Association—'Copyright. Berlin, January 16. An official communique in (the Naval Ordnance Gazette closes • KiJel Canal 'to foreign warships despite t'he ’provisions of ’ the | Treaty of (Versai.Wesz Perm isI* sion to pass must now £e obtained through diplomatic ch&n- -; nels. It is that the j Governments concerned have ai- | ready been informed of measure. The German Foreign Office spokesman states that the step is ,an automatic sequel to the suspension of the waterways clauses of the jTraaty of (Versailles. The official news -agency announces that the Reichstag has I been summoned f or January 30 to hear Herr Hitler’s spejeoh, which will include a lengthy rework during the first four (years view of Nazi reconstruction of his regime. The Daily Henaid's Berlin correspondent .stasias that Herr Hitler will speak on the Nazi “A B C,” namely Aryanism, Bolshevism and Colonies, The Reichstag last met I on March 7, 1937, when Hitler' announced the reoccupation of the Rhineland.