London, June 14.
The British Government had requested the German Government to arrange for the withdrawal of the German Consul in Liverpool Herr Reinhardt, announced Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Commons today.
This, he declared, was a sequel to the case heard in the Manchester Assizes in which Joseph Kelly, a brick-layer, was found guilty, and sentenced to 10 years' penal servitude, ior making contacts with agents in Germany,.to whom he sold plans of a Government factory.
Mr. Chamberlain said that, in view of what transpired in the court proceedings, the Government must accept the conclusion that the German Consulate in Liverpool was implicated in the case.
Therefore, the Government had requested the German Government to arrange for the withdrawal of Herr Reinhardt. The request, Mr. Chamberlain added, had been made two Gays ago.—Reuter.
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