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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20272, 14 August 1937, Page 7

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BITTER GERMAN ATTACKS. PROTEST BY PRESS ASSOCIATION. INSULTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received August 14, 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, August 13. To combat the flood of bitter'attacks on British and other correspondents, notably Mr Norman Ebbutt, representative of the Times in Berlin, who has been inundated with anonymous letters and telephone insults, the Foreign Press Association has written strongly to Dr. Goebbels and the newspaper Angriff rejecting the charge that Its members, especially Mr Ebbutt, have been guilty of corrupt misrepresentation in reporting events or secret counter-revolutionary activity. The letter adds; "Not a single proof has been produced. Our members are highly concerned to learn how you propose to justify the charges, a continuance of which is bound to seriously Jeopardise the favourable development of international relations.” ABUSE OF MR EBBUTT. PRESS COMMENT UNPRINTABLE. GERMAN AUTHORITIES ANNOYED. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 13. The German press does not mention British comment on the expulsion of Mr Norman Ebbutt, representative of the Times in Berlin, whom it accuses of spending his time collecting "latrine talk." The comments in the Angriff are unprintable. The campaign for a "clean-up" of foreign journalists in German has become Intense. The authorities apparently are most annoyed at the British publication of their new conflict with the German Protestant Church.