NO MANDATE BREACH

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 5

NO MANDATE BREACH

GERMANS IN AFRICA. ANTI-NAZI PROCLAMATION. Hertzog Replies to Protest Note. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.50 a.m. Cape Town, April 16. Declaring that the recent antiNazi proclamation concerning South-west Africa was not a breach of the mandate, General Hertzog has replied to the German Government’s protest Note: “I assure Germany that South Africa is not inspired by unfriendly motives, but it is imperative to ensure proper administration of the territory of which she is responsible. South Africa is desirous of promoting ordered development. “The Reich may consider the proclamation combative only in that it was directed against practices that, the Union considers, would prevent conciliation between sections of the population opposed to the interests of German and other inhabitants. “The activities in the mandated territory of some German nationals and non-British subjects were the immediate cause of the proclamation, which applies equally to all non-British subjects, and not merely German subjects.” The German Note, presented on April 6, denied that Germans were interfering with institutions in Southwest Africa.