SOUTH-WEST AFRICA
POSSIBILITY OF TROUBLE ON HITLER’S BIRTHDAY. ■EIGHT 'THOUSAND GERMANS ARMED AND ORGANISED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 18. The police are due at Windhoek (South-West Africa) tomorrow on the eve of Herr Hitler's birthday, on which it is authoritatively stated that trouble can be expected. There is a possibility of reckless and irresponsible action, with 8000 Germans, mostly armed and organised. A cablegram froth. Johannesburg yesterday read:—The first police reserves have gone to South-west Africa. The total to be sent will be 200. A special train is following the police reserves carrying machine-guns, armoured cars, and a month’s rations. It was announced in the Assembly in Cape Town that information had been received making urgent the immediate strengthening of the SouthWest African Police. The action was an ordinary police measure and there was no question of military action. Further details were refused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1939, Page 6
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149SOUTH-WEST AFRICA Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1939, Page 6
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