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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 5, 1989.
OF
NAZI BOYCOTT
BELGIAN SHOPS Threats In Eupen And Malmedy
Germans Finance
Propaganda
German propaganda in Eupen and Malmedy, the two frontier districts transferred with their 60,- 000 inhabitants from Germany to Belgium under the Treaty of Versailles, has now taken the form of boycotts against shopkeepers of Belgian stock. M. Werson, Burgomaster of Malmedy, made this state- ment.
Although German propaganda in these two districts has never been on the scale adopted in Danzig, Austria and the Sudetenland, there is much German activity of a secessionist character.
The Heimatbound, whose members wear peak- ed caps and a swastika badge, has drawn up a list of shops owned by people who are not of the Ger- man stock, which comprised five-sixths of the po- pulation before the treaty.
M. Werson said that the boycott only 5 per cent. of the workers. had not been a success. "The Roughly 60 per cent. of the people voted for Belgian parties in last month's elections.
members of the Heimatbund," he went on, "warn housewives not to buy from Belgian shopkeepers, and threaten them with punishment in the event of Malmedy being re- turned to the Reich.
“NO OPEN VIOLENCE”. "But there is no open violence at present. It is just a campaign to work on the nerves of the in- habitants.
:
“STRONGEST PARTY” "The strongest party in the re- gion as a whole is the Union Catholique, though in Malmedy the Socialists are stronger."
argue
German propagandists that the Heimatbund is really the strongest party.
"Otherwise the Heimatbund has been relatively quiet since the elec-the transfer to Belgium was made They maintain, moreover, that tions last month. Nevertheless partly because the territory was their newspapers, of which one is said to have formed a base for published in Malmedy and two German militarist activities, and more in Eupen, campaign actively. partly because the valuable woods They are sold at a cheaper rate in than in Germany.
“A man who calls himself Ober- gauleiter Buhrke is head of the German n propaganda, which is car- ried on with money received from Germany.
367 M.P.H. BY
BY BARTER
SPITFIRE
London, June 29. Vickers Supermarine Spitfire. with standard service equipment has recently achieved a speed of 367 m.p.h. in official' trials at.
Martlesham Heath, announces the
Air Ministry.
The speed was attained at height of 16,400ft. The previous
maximum level speed of this air-
craft with a fixed-pitch air screw was 362 m.p.h. at 18,500ft, and 846 m.p.h. at 15,000ft.
Although the Spitare is claim. ed to be the fastest military aero- plane in the world, there are other' fighters on the R.A.F.secrèt list which are said to be capable of even higher speeds.
PENAL REFORM BILL DELAYED
London, To-day.
AGREEMENT WITH U. S.
LONDON, TO-DAY. THE REV: R. W, SORENSEN (LABOUR) IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS YESTERDAY RE QUESTED FURTHER INFORMA- TION CONCERNING ·THE ANGLO AMERICAN BARTER AGREEMENT.
He also asked whether further arrangements were contemplated with the American or other govern- ments.
Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, replied that the United States Senate had rati- fied the agreement.
Legislation
empowering the American Government to acquire the necessary stocks of cotton was. being considered by Mr. Cordell is Hull, the American Secretary of
State.
In Parliamentary circles it.
gestion of business in the Commons, assumed that in view of the con- it will not be possible to make fur- ther progress before the Summer adjournment early in August with the Criminal Justice Bill the Major penal reform measure early in the session by the Home introduced Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare. British Wireless.
KING GRANTS AUDIENCES
London, To-day.
It was hoped to put the agree NO FURTHER AGREEMENTS
ment into force as soon as necessary powers were obtained.
the
trade interests in regard to detailed The Minister was consulting agreements which would be neces- sary when the agreement comes into force.or
No further arrangements of this kind were contemplated at present.
Reuter.
TRANSPORT IN WARTIME
the Moreanet "district were handed over as compensation for During the morning the King the destruction of the Belgian received the new Chilean Ambassa
Landon, To-day. forests.
dor and the new Yugo Slav and with the organisation of transport Further progress has been made Those who defend the cause. of Uruguayan Ministers, who pre-in time of war, Belgium reply that this was a dissented their letters of credence. trict of French-speaking." Walloons
A scheme for control of road "The Eupen and Malmedy re- until 1815, since when it has been Ambassador at Warsaw, was
Sir Howard Kennard, British passenger services and their ras gion," M. Werson added, “is pros-subjected to determined Prussian ceived in audience by the King last made public by the Minister of re-tioning with petrol has not been perous and the unemployed total "enltural" methods.
Transport. British Wirelers.
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evening. British Wireless,"
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