GERMANS HOAXED.
Communist Speech Broadcasted For Peace Lecture. KIDNAPPING PLAN SUCCEEDS. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 12 noon.) BERLIN, October 7. One million German wireless listeners were hoaxed by the Saturday evening programme when it was announced that the Socialist, Wolfgang Schwarz, would lecture on the problem of ensuring peace, but the listeners were amazed to hear the flaming eulogy of Communism and Soviet Russia with a violent denunciation of Socialism, ending in an appeal to support Communism, to a plebiscite and to forbid the construction of warships. It was revealed later that a Communist had impersonated Schwarz, whom 'three Communists kidnapped and conveyed at the point of a revolver to a lonely village several miles from Berlin where he was left stranded.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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124GERMANS HOAXED. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 7
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