BRITISH REFUGEES
TREATMENT ON LEAVING GERMANY MEN & WOMEN STRIPPED AT FRONTIER. MONEY AND VALUABLES CONFISCATED. LONDON, September 6. One of the last parties of British subjects to leave Germany included Miss A. Plummer, of Auckland, a former member of the New Zealand House staff, who was teaching English in Prague. German customs officers on the Ger-man-Dutch frontier stripped members of the party, including females, and confiscated all their money and other valuables and forced them to enter Holland penniless. The Dutch Government arranged their transport to England. SOUTH AFRICA MEMBERSHIP OF SMUTS CABINET. PREMIER TAKES DEFENCE. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, September 6. The membership of the new Cabinet is:— Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs and Defence, General Smuts. Minister of Finance and Education, Mr J. H. Hofmeyer. Minister of Commerce and Industry. Mr R. Stuttaford. Minister of Harbours and Railways, Mr C. F. Sturrock. Minister of Native Affairs, Colonel Denys Reitz. Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Colonel Collins. Minister of the Interior and Public Health, Mr H. Lawrence. Minister of Posts and Telegraphs and Public Works, Mr C. F. Clarkson. Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, Mr W. B. Madeley. Minister of Lands. Senator Conroy. Minister of Justice. Du. Colin Steyn. Minister of Mines, Colonel Stallard. Minister without portfolio. Major Van der Byl.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 7
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218BRITISH REFUGEES Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1939, Page 7
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