GERMANS IN AFRICA
VISITING REICH ANNUALLY FOR MILITARY TRAINING. STATEMENT BY GENERAL SMUTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 9.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN. April 19. General Smuts, replying to a question in the Assembly, said hundreds of voting Germans from South-West Africa went to Germany annually, returning as fully trained soldiers. The remainder of the population was not trained. DEFINITE ACTION BILL TO MAKE S.W. AFRICA PART OF UNION. FIRST READING CARRIED. (Received This Dav 10.35 a.m.) CAPE TOWN. April 19. General Smuts, introducing a Bill incorporating South-West Africa in the Union, said the despatch of police tc South-West Africa was undertaken nurely as a result of information which indicated the possibility of a serious breach of the law, which could be forestalled. The Bill was read a first time by 32 votes to 20. CALLED PROVOCATIVE PRECAUTION BY UNION GOVERNMENT. GERMAN CRITICISM. Ry Telegraph—Press Association—Cnnvright BERLIN, April 18. The official news agency describes the South African police move (the despatch of a force of 200 policemen to South-West Africa) as a “provocative violation of mandatory rights.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1939, Page 7
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