NAZI FABLE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1940, Page 4

NAZI FABLE

THE ALLEGED DANUBE PLOT NO ARRESTS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. FEW UNDECLARED REVOLVERS FOUND. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 9. The German propaganda story of an attempt by' the British Secret Service to block traffic on the Danube is considered in authoritative circles in London to be completely disproved by the facts contained in the Rumanian Government’s statement that their authorities retained certain goods found on a vessel flying the British flag c.c Giurgiu which did not correspond to the ship's manifest. A few revolvers were among the goods found. It is untrue'that 100 men were arrested and five ships sequestered. No arrests have been made ana the incident is regarded as settled. This German attempt to implicate the British Secret Service is hardly less ludicrous than such recent allegations as that the British Secret Service had attempted to foist a bogus Dalai Lama on Tibetans, stated in a German broadcast from Deutschlandsender on February 20, or that it had been deputed to import yellow feverbearing mosquitoes into India to reduce the population stated in a broadcast in Italian from Munich on December 8.