BERLIN RADIO TALKER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 16

BERLIN RADIO TALKER

“OFFICER IN TOWER” BELIEF IN LONDON LONDON, Oct. 13. It is believed, says the Daily Telegraph, that one of the announcers broadcasting in English from the German radio station i.s Norman Baillie-Stewarl, formerly known as "the officer in the Tower." Lieutenant Baillic-Stewart was sentenced in 1933 to five years' penal servitude on a charge of having imparted military information to Germany. It is stated, the newspaper says, that persons who knew him as a lieutenant in the Sea forth Highlanders recognised his voice in the early morning broadcasts. People listening to the German station the other night noticed a different voice on the S) o’clock broadcast from that of the "super-cul-tured" announcer who had been on the air since the outbreak of war. The Evening News states that Bail-lic-Stewart is reported to have left England in August, 1937, for the purpose of making his future home abroad. In a letter to a friend, he wrote: “As you know, my sympathies have always been elsewhere than in England. I am now going to use them constructively.” Baillie-Stewarl later published articles referring to his long-stand-ing German sympathies, and describing "espionage under a Berlin agent.”