NAZI HATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1939, Page 5

NAZI HATE

WILD CHARGES AGAINST BRITAIN ALLEGED NETWORK OF ESPIONAGE DENUNCIATION OF CONSULAR OFFICES. HITLER ORGAN LEADS CHORUS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright BERLIN. July 3.. Temporarily turning from the topic of “encirclement,” the whole weight of the Press has been flung into ;i campaign a e eusing Britain of building up a vast network of espionage throughout Germany by using the consulates’ passport control offices.

Flaring headlines on the front pages of the morning journals give prominence to an official announcement that the Reich has requested Britain to recall her Consul in Vienna. Mr Donald Gainer, who is alleged to have been involved in espionage.

Mr Gainer has already returned Io London.

A headline in Herr Hitler's "Volkis.cher Beobachtcr” says: "Britain’s Official Representatives are Strongholds of Espionage." The “Boerscn Zeitung” declares that Britain is abus ing German hospitality and that, even the highest representatives are involv cd in the espionage scandal.

The official “Deutsche Dienst" says: -It is intolerable that the consular ser vice should be saturated with professional spies and secret agents. Britain is in a mental state of morbid distrust and exaggerated fear, but. primarily in order to poison further international atmosphere, she is now expelling innocent. irreproachable Germans."

The incident to which the newspapers refer-occurred several weeks ago. when it was announced that the German Consul-General in Liverpool was implicated in the trial there of an alleged spy. At the request ol the British Government he was recalled to Berlin. Within a day or two the German Government, declaring substantially the same reason, requested the withdrawal of Mr Gainer from Vienna. This, it was reported, was interpreted in Whitehall circles as a groundless reprisal.