NAZI FABLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 5

NAZI FABLE

THE MUNICH BEER HALL i OUTRAGE ARREST OF ALLEGED BRITISH AGENTS ACCUSED OF COMPLICITY. STORY RIDICULED BY FOREIGN OFFICE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrigh' LONDON. November 22. In in I (lit ion 1 o I lie a rrest of (leoi'g' Kiser, who is alleged Io have confessed Io I'espon--sibilily for lhe bomb outrage in the Munich beer hall on November IS, it is officially announced that Geriifan police ari'esled two alleged agents of the British Secret Service for complicity in I he Municli bombing incident. The German official news agency declares that Elser was arrested on the night of the Munich explosion while he was attempting to cross the Ger-man-Swiss frontier to meet the instigators of the crime. He allegedy confessed that the explosion was planned a year ago. He built a time-bomb in the pillars of the beer hall while doing small jobs over a period of weeks. The fuse was set to explode the bomb in 144 hours. The instigator was the British Secret Service and the organiser was Otto Strasser, a former lieutenant of Herr Hitler, who fled from Germany. The agency adds that German Secret Service agents describing themselves as revolutionary German officers contacted British Secret Service agents at The Hague, from whom they obtained a portable radio enabling them to contact the British Government daily. On November 9 Nir Best and an accomplice, Captain N. Stevens, attempted to cross the Netherlands-German frontier into the Netherlands near Venlo. but they were overpowered and taken prisoners by the State police. Authoritative quarters declare that Mr Best and Captain Stevens are at present in custody in Berlin. The Bi'itish Foreign Office describes the German statesmen! as “quite incomprehensible” and declares there is no connection between Elser’s arrest and the alleged kidnapping of two British citizens on the German-Nether-lands frontier. The Foreign Office adds that neither the British Government nor any British agent has any knowledge of tiser. The public will draw its own conclusions from his long examination by the German police.