GATE-CRASHED GIBRALTAR

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 202, 3 July 1939, Page 4

GATE-CRASHED GIBRALTAR

PASSPORT NOT SHOWN GERMAN GIRL NURSEMAID •GIBRALTAR, May 12.—A girl, without showing her passport, lias gate-crashed Gibraltar, Britain’s impregnable fortress. She is a German. She travelled carrying a German passport, with several hundred British troops going home from .Palestine- the whole length of the Mediterranean in the transport ship Dilwara. And she passed unchallenged under the noses of tlie special naval police through Gibraltar’s “gate-crasli-prcof’ dockyards. ‘ : She went temporarily to live in Gibraltar’s Reek Hotel,.where officers of British warships and colonels of Guards regiments and their wives anil! daughters pay 22s (id each day to stay. □stectivasi Called All nassportes , including British, must be producied tor examination, but the first that officials heard of the girl was when they were told that she had not filled up the police form at tlie hotel demanding ago, nationality and destination. Detectives investigated and soon they found that the girl was Eraulein Gertiude Scliiffuer, 24-year-old nursemaid. Then the detectives found that Gertrude's mistress was -Mrs. Eve Nott, 27-year-old wife of a British officer in Palestine going home to England with her four-year-old daughter and Geitrude. British polices., efui?L;'“sFa¥oned at opposite ends o! the ALediterranean, tone here in GibraltnV, in Palestine, began eiicirangiiig .’'cablegrams. Tlioy discussed All. tl>ell£sortn details of Gertrude, the. iitilt -German girl who had gate-crasiibd Gibraltar. Tlie police and gave her stay % here.