Overseas Correspondents Gaoled Or Hiding

Chronicle (Levin), 10 April 1948, Page 5

Overseas Correspondents Gaoled Or Hiding

Received Friday, 8.20 p.m. NEW YORK, April 8. While the Argentine delegation takes an active part in the Freedom oi" the press Conference in Geneva one foreign correspondent in Buenos Aires lias gone into hiding as a result of hitter attacks against her in the local papers, the director and managing editor oi the Overseas News Agency are stated to he in gaol and a former correspondent for the London News-Chronicle is heing held incommunicado. This is reported l»y the Xcw YorK Times' rorresjjoinleiu i Virginia Lee Warreui in u nn'ssage froni Buimios Aires. She savs u I'nited States citiy.en (Jolin (irilliths) vvlio was a rulturai attaehe in the I'nited States Knibassy at Buenos Aires is also Ixdiexed to he in gaol. , The eorres.pojident in hiding is Alrs. Nora Pines de Viterho, an italian eitiy.en emploved by O.X.A. The Beron regijne has accused her of foinenting a hank einplovees' strike. Aeeording to an Italian Kmhassy spokesinan she is well and sat'e. Xo siu-li ^lelinite news is fortheoming on Aniadeo Beeanati, who recently heeame din i-tor of O.X.A. Bnreau in Buenos Aires, and of Kiearoo Jtasi-oivsky, nianag'ing editor of the sanie ageney which in.-ideutally is a I'nited States eonipanv. They were arrested on Tuesday nigiit. The former Xews- 'hronicle correspondent who has been hehl incommunicado since 1111anight 011 Tuesday is( i\I fs. Afonica fAlilward who was' borti hi'Ghile Jnit Iioius British citizenship. Xo charge has been nmde against her, but the Federai Judge who ordered her arrest tohi the British Consul that he wishes to interrogate her "concerning eertain or her frieuds. " She is a friend of Viterho and jdioned his son that he would he honie. wilhin an hour, but he has not been hcard froni since and it is helieved he too is being held inconiinunieado. The Associated Press corresponde.nt at Bueos Aires reports that Virgmha Lee • Warren lierself was arrested tonight in cojinection with the banlv einployees' strike but was released immediately uj»on her promise to report "fo the Pederal police to-morrow.