HUNTED LIKE A BEAST

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20991, 19 December 1939, Page 12

HUNTED LIKE A BEAST

WOULD NOT SPY HARRIED BY THE GESTAPO (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, November 11 Johannes Ole Paulsen, a German, was working in Copenhagen six years ago, when the Gestapo went to see him, reports the Daily Express. They told him he had to be a spy for them in Denmark. Paulsen refused. And since then the Gestapo have hunted him “like a wild beast” in city after city, country after country, in Europe. At Marlborough Street Police Court yesterday his story was told when Paulsen, who lives in York Street, Marylebone, N.W., was charged with being found in the United Kingdom while a deportation order was in force against him. He was jailed for fourteen days. After Paulsen refused to be a spy his passport was taken from him. He fled to Paris. Then he came on to England on an irregular passport, said the police, and worked in the film industry at Elstree. In 1937, on the advice of friends, he gave himself up. He was recommended for deportation. He left the train at Brussels, and for the next eighteen months fled from the | Gestapo in different countries. He returned to England in February. ■ Mr Donald Mclntyre, defending ! him, said:—"He had been hunted like j a wild beast since 1933 for the one i and only reason that he refused to become an agent-only a polite word for a spy—for the Nazis in Denmark. “He was hunted from country to country. He could not stay in one country because of renewed Gerl man efforts to get him. j “His whole interests were Danish, and who knows his fate if he had gone back?”