NAZI SABOTEURS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 3

NAZI SABOTEURS

OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. DENOUNCED BY ALL PARTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) JOHANNESBURG, February 2. Further acts of sabotage are reported in the Orange Free State and the northern part of Cape Province, where telegraph and telephone lines were cut. Communications between Johannesburg, Cape Town, Kimberley, East London and Port Elizabeth were interrupted for some hours. It is learned that last Thursday’s acts of sabotage when the main hightension pylons connecting Victoria Falls power station at Vereeniging with the gold mines were blown up by dynamiters, has now been proved to be the work of Nazi agents, operating from headquarters in Portuguese East Africa. Mr H. G. Lawrence, Minister of the Interior, has stated, that the headquarters of the saboteurs’ organisation has been traced to agents beyond the Mozambique border of the Union. Dr. D. F. Malan, Leader of the Opposition, has stated publicly that his supporters were not responsible for this sabotage, and has warned all South Africans against acts of violence. Dr. van Rensburg, leader of the Os-sewa-Brandwag, the extreme antiGovernment movement, has also repudiated any connection with the saboteurs. ____