IMPRISONED AS SPY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 June 1938, Page 12

IMPRISONED AS SPY

ENGLISHMAN UNDER ARREST IN VIENNA. “Beaten up” by 10 German N.C.O.’s in a Vienna cafe . . . thrown into prison . . . accused' of being a spy . . . then released without a word of apology ... . This was the experience of a 35-year-old London stockbroker in the new Nazi Vienna. An English reporter in Vienna met Mr David Hammersley, of Cochrane Street, N.W., after his release from gaol. With his face bruised and the lapel of his coat soaked in his . own blood, he told the story of the attack. “I came to Vienna ten days ago for treatment at the Wienner Sanatorium,” . he said. ' “On Monday evening I went to a t small restaurant in the centre of the - city. t “While getting my overcoat on leavj iug I accidentally bumped into a German N.C.O. who hit me. Despite my - illness I replied by sending the Gerf man spinning against the wall. “That was the signal for about a ) dozen other German N.C.O’s. to ati tack me. j “Afterwards they sent for the Aus- □ trian police, who took me to gaol in a police car. f “There they threw me into a long, t narrow cell, where there were about a dozen people—many of them Jews, who had been arrested after their shops had been looted, and several Austrians. In the morning I was told r that I could depart.”