ESCAPED THE GESTAPO
TRIBUTE TO NORMAN DAVIS (P.A.) Auckland, July 30. The outstanding coolness and courage of Mr. Norman Davis, former Dunedin Rhodes Scholar, when living in peril of death from the Gestapo, was remarked on by Mr. Patrick Maitland, war correspondent in the South Pacific for the London News Chronicle, who has arrived in New Zealand. Mr. Davis, who from the outbreak of the war till March, 1941, was Press attache to the British Legation at Sofia, was subsequently one of a group of prise\.rs which included Mr. Maitland taken by the Italians in Yugoslavia. During the period ot their detention the German Gestapo was staging treason trials in Bulgaria and Mr. Davis was indicted as the most criminal spy of all. Though his peril was obvious—ne was in fact sentenced to death in absentia—he showed the most exemplary courage and good humour. He owed his escape either to the Italians failing to identify him with the man for whom the Gestapo was advertising or to lack of Italian enthusiasm for co-operation with the Germans.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 180, 3 August 1942, Page 1
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