NAZI RADIO CANARD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 5

NAZI RADIO CANARD

ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT GERMAN WOMAN OFFICIAL LETTER OF GRATITUDE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Nov. 16. In a broadcast in English from Hamburg, on November 14 was included a talk by a woman purporting to be Fraulein Eve Wagner, formerly secretary of the German Consulate at Glasgow. In the talk charges were j made against the authorities on account of her treatment while under detention in Scotland. Similar charges have already been denied. Fraulein Wagner, like other members of the consulate staff, was treated as an untried person, and enjoyed all the privileges of this class. On being liberated on October 3, Fraulein Wagner, like the Consul himself and the other woman member of the staff who had been detained, expressed warm thanks t > i!l concerned for the' kindly and considerate treatment they had received and, ,on October 4 Fraulein Wagner wrote from an address in Glasgow to one of the Glasgow officials: "Dear Miss Ferguson. "Before I am leaving this country, I would like to thank you for your great kindness, and I wished I was able to show myself in some way grateful to you. Would you please be good enough to convey to other lady officers, who might inquire where I have disappeared to, that I have gone back to Germany, and thanking everyone of you for your great kindness. I am sure there will be many times when I shall be thinking back of the time I spent under the stern eye of our little gaoleress. Wishing you and everyone else the best of luck, and we may hope to be able to meet again. "Yours gratefully, Eve."