ESPIONAGE CHARGE
AGAINST BRITISH RACING JOURNALIST LETTERS INTERCEPTED. COMMUNICATION WITH FIRMS IN GERMANY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Photostatic copies of scores of letters intercepted at the Post Office were produced in the Richmond Police Court when Donald Adams, aged 56, a racing journalist, was charged with recording information relating to his Majesty’s forces likely to be useful to an enemy. The prosecution stated that Adams represented the Dresden manufacturers Fedor- and Burgman and had received letters from a Hamburg exporter named Raedler, which had been intercepted at the Post Office, ostensibly concerning racing and enclosing money purporting to be placed on horses. Adams, in reply, sent books and other information, including a copy of infantry training, which, though it could be purchased at bookstalls, was useful to an enemy. A photostatic copy of a code, also intercepted, was produced in court. Adams pleaded not guilty and was remanded, bail being refused.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 7
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159ESPIONAGE CHARGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 7
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