JOURNALISTS EXPELLED.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 7

JOURNALISTS EXPELLED.

PROTEST FROM GERMANY. COUCHED IN RESTRAINED TERMS. 'JnltPd pres; Assn.—Elec. Tel Copyright. (Received August 10, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 9. The German Charge d’Affaires has conveyed a German protest against the expulsion of journalists to Viscount Halifax. It is understood it is couched in restrained terms. REFUSAL BY GERMANY. PRESSMAN ASKED TO LEAVE. TIMES CORRESPONDENT IN BERLIN United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. 10, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that as a reprisal for the expulsion of the three German journalists from England- the Government has requested the Times to replace within a fortnight its experienced and popular chief representative, the former president of the Foreign Press Association, Mr. Norman Ebbut, substituting a correspondent more acceptable to Germany'. The diplomatic correspondent of Ihe Times announces that the Charge d’Affaires, Woerman, in the absence of Herr von Ribbentrop, called at the Foreign Office regarding the expulsions and requested the Foreign Office to Inform the Times that the German Government desired Mr Ebbutt’s removal. Failing his withdrawal within a fortnight the German Government would proceed with his expulsion.