NAZIS ABROAD.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 7

NAZIS ABROAD.

CONGRESS TO BE HELD. FOSTERING OF GERMANISM. 10,000 DELEGATES TO ATTEND. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. MUNICH, Aug. 23. A congress of Nazis and Germans living abroad is to be held at Stuttgart shortly under the auspices of the organisation for fostering Germanism abroad. General Goering and Dr. Goebbels are to speak. Herr Langer, formerly London representative of the Graf Reichschach newspaper agency, who was expelled from England recently, is expected to toe the guest of honour. Ten thousand delegates will attend the congress. Herr Ernst Bohle, district leader, head of the special Government department formed to watch over the interests of Germans living abroad, states that the congress will combat accusations made abroad against Nazi organisations in foreign countries. Task of Herr Bohle. The Tageblatt says that Herr Bohle’s task is to bind all Germans abroad to the Reich because Germanism and Nazism are one. Herr Bohle, as chief of the foreign organisation, can announce his measures to the world through the Foreign Office. These include orders that the local Nazi leader should appear at all functions abroad to which a German ■Charge d’AlTaires is invited.

ESPIONAGE IN BRITAIN. USE OF WORKING GIRLS. THREAT TO SEND 'HOME. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. LONDON, Aug. 22. With the threat of a recall to Germany hanging over them, an army of German girl office workers and domestics are working inside the Nazi espionage web in Britain. According to the Daily Herald the alieus brancli of Scotland Yard is checking up on the credentials of hundreds of people. The Home Office has learned that the girls were approached and asked to gather certain types of information, refusal being met by a threat, “ If you do not, our leaders will use their influence to have your permit to stay here withdrawn.” The information suggests that Herr Hitler has 100 key men in a secret police section here. At least two shops specialising in the sale of anti-Fascist papers and periodicals published on the Continent are under constant surveillance by Nazi agents.