ARRESTED BY GESTAPO
ON ESPIONAGE CHARGE DESCENDANT OF GENERAL BOOTH. EVENTUALLY RELEASED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.10 a.m.) ANKARA, November 13. Colonel Mary Booth, a grand-daugn-ter of General Booth, has arrived here from Germany, where she was interned after the occupation of Belgium. She revealed that when the Germans entered Brussels, where the Salvation Army had its headquarters in Edith Cavell’s house, she was,. arrested by the Gestapo on a charge oi espionage. She said: “I thought I was going to share Nurse Cavell s fate, but I was acquitted and interned.” Colonel Booth is a member of a party of British and Palestinian women who were exchanged for German women from Palestine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1942, Page 3
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