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Perpetrator Of Radio Hoax Attacked. REVENGE ON COMMUNIST. (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 11 a.m.) BERLIX, Octobcr 8. Karl Schulz, who was responsible for Saturday's broadcast hoax, was assaulted to-day in an underground train by a journalist colleague of Heir Schwarz, who struck Schulz in the face. A wrestling match ensued in the crowded carriage but the police were unable to take action against Schulz, who enjoys a Parliamentary Deputy's immunity.
A message yesterday Irom Berlin stated that about 1,000,000 German wireless listeners Avere hoaxed on Saturday evening when it was announced that a Socialist, Herr Wolfgang Schwarz, would lecture on the problem of ensuring peace. However, listeners were amazed to hear a flaming eulogy of Communism and Soviet Russia, with a violent denunciation of Socialism. It was revealed later that a Communist had impersonated Herr Schwarz, who was kidnapped by' three other Communists, and conveyed at the point of the revolver to a lonely village several miles from Berlin, and left stranded there.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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166UNDERGROUND SCRAP. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 7
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