During the crisis, a radio engineer called at a house to change the wireless accumulator. The owner of the set, an elderly, rather Victorian woman, remarked casually: “You might have a look at the battery, too. I think it’s running set’s started speaking German.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1939, Page 6
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