AFFRAY IN PANAMA
PRO-NAZI GERMANS RESIST POLICE TEN PERSONS KILLED & SIX WOUNDED. REFUSAL TO SUBMIT PAPERS FOR EXAMINATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK. July 8. Panama officials announced that ten persons, including three women, were killed and six wounded at Cotito, a village twentj' miles south of the borders of Costa Rica, when the Panama police insisted on compliance with immigration and other laws. The United Press of America says the area is settled by Germans, most of whom are strongly pro-Nazi. The police asked to examine the Germans’ papers, but the colonists refused, claiming that they were members of a religious sect which exempted them. The Government insisted on an examination being carried out and sent a large body of police. The Germans opened fire on the police, but were outnumbered and out-gunned, the German colony being almost wiped out. Several were arrested. It is reported that the Costa Rican Government advised Panama regarding the operations of alleged Nazi radio stations in the Cotito area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 5
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166AFFRAY IN PANAMA Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 July 1941, Page 5
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