WILD TALK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 6

WILD TALK

BY ACCUSED GERMAN WOMAN CHARGED WITH MAN UNDER OFFICIAL SECRETS’ ACT PAIR TO BE TRIED AT OLD BAILEY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. May 31. “The Germans will be in England within three weeks. The Royal Family and the Cabinet will be publicly executed and Sir Oswald Mosley will become ruler of Britain under German control”—this statement was attributed to the German wife of a R.A.F. sergeant, Mrs Mari Louise Augusta Ingram, when she. together with William Swift Archibald Watts, was charged at Portsmouth under the Official Secrets’ Act.

The prosecution said Mrs Ingram was employed as a domestic by a senior officer on important duties for the Admiralty. Mrs Ingram urged the man to join the British Union of Fascists. She confided that her brother-in-law was a member of the staff of the German High Command, whom she was supplying with information. The police arrested the defendants on May 23. If the offences had occurred less than a week later, the defendants would have been before the Court on charges punishable by death. The defendants were committed for trial at the Old Bailey.