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CAPTAIN KENDRICK LEAVES FOR ENGLAND ALLEGED ESPIONAGE IN VIENNA OUTCRY IN THE GERMAN ! PRESS VIENNA, August 20. Captain Thomas Kendrick, British passport control officer in Vienna, who was arrested as he entered the old Reich on his way to England on leave, was released today. He started for England, with his wife,’by car. An official communique issued in Berlin states that Captain Kendrick was arrested because the authorities had proof that he did espionage work in Vienna. He has been ordered to leave the Reich at the soonest possible moment. After his release . Captain Kendrick' refused to make any statement.
All German newspapers allege that Captain Kendrick “confessed” to espionage. Field-Marshal Goering’s newspaper, the “National Zeitung,” alleges that Captain Kendrick was spying on behalf of the British Intelligence Service, and adds that the British Government must face the German Government’s disapproval over the employment of officers for espionage Germany emphatically demands the discontinuance of such highly unpleasant usage and the rigid observance of the limit of diplomatic rights.
NO DETAILS OF CHARGES REGARDED AS EXTREMELY IMPROBABLE LONDON, August 21. The “Star” today eulogises the cheerful efficiency with which Captain Kendrick dealt with visa difficulties under the Nazi regime, winning praise from all but the Nazis. He and his staff were worried day and night seeing thousands of applicants waiting in a permanent queue which Nazi officials once divided into “Aryans” and “non-Aryans.” Captain Kendrick refused to recognise this division and, when the Nazis insisted, he dealt with the “non-Aryans’' first. The Americans adopted a similar procedure.
No particulars have been received in London from Germany as to the evidence on which the espionage charges are based, and they are regarded in official quarters here as. extremely improbable. '
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1938, Page 5
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