DETAILS OF CHARGE

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 9

DETAILS OF CHARGE

UNDER CLAUSE IN CODE

MR. PANTER'S STATEMENT

(British Official Wireless.) j (Received October 28, iioon.) KUGBY, October 27. The British Consul-General in Munich, Mr. D. St. C. Gainer, who since Tuesday has been denied access to Mr. Noel Panter, the Munich correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph," was today permitted to visit him afc the Munich Police- Headquarters, where he is under "protective custody." Mr. Panter is to bo charged at Lcip' zig undor Article 92 of the Penal Code with high treason and espionage. It is assumed that Mr. Panter's arrest is in connection with his descriptive report) reproduced iv last Monday's "Daily Telegraph," of the parade of Storm Troops which the Chancellor, Herr Hitler, addressed at Kelheim on Sunday. Article 92 of the Criminal Code- provides for the punishment by penal servitude for not less than two years of anyone who -deliberately "communicates to another Government or makes publicly known State secrets or news of which ho knows that to keop them secret is necessary for the welfare of the German Empire or the Federal State, as against that of other Governments." The Consul-General found that Mr. Panter was in good health, although pale from his confinement. He has been woll treated and allowed to buy what he wanted. It is stated that the charge is based on "accumulation of information concerning Storm Troops and Hitler Guards which was used so as to convey an impression that they were military formations and that Germany was thus violating the Treaty of Versailles." Mr. Panter declared that his message was sent in the course- of carrying on only his ordinary occupation of journalist and sending ordinary messages. Mr. Gainer has asked the Bavarian Government for permission for a legal adviser to see Mr. Panter.