IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 400, 6 April 1937, Page 5

IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

UNPROVED ALLEGATIONS. GERMAN MINISTER’S PROTEST. Effect of Anti-Nazi Proclamation. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.50 a.m. Cape Town, April 5. The German Minister to-d-y presented a protest to General H tzog against the anti-Nazi proclamation, which, he declares, must b“ regarded as a combative measure against Germans in South-West Africa. The Minister refers to the report of the South-West Africa Commission as producing unproved allegations, on which the proclamation was based. The German Note denies that Germans are interfering with institutions in South-West Africa, and adds: “The German Government, which repeatedly has urged the elimlna tion of tension by mutual understanding, now considers it to be its duty to raise a warning and asks the Union Government to take steps to prevent serious damage in carrying out the proclamation.” The proclamation directed against Nazi-ism in South-West Africa, and recruitment for the German army or auxiliary forces, prohibits all but British subjects from participating n the aetvites of “declared public bodies or political organsations” in mandated territory. It also prohibts British subjects from taking an oath of allegiance to any ruler except the King and to any Government except the South African, or to any foreign political organisation.