WOMAN ARRESTED

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21373, 18 March 1941, Page 3

WOMAN ARRESTED

CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE j Miss May James, aged 50. who ! was born in Somerset, has been ar- ; rested by the Gestapo in Paris on j charges of espionage and the illegal j possession of a wireless transmitting j apparatus, states the London Daily j Mail. She has been in charge of the • British American Welfare Hostel of j the Y.W.C.A. in Paris for the past ten years. News of her arrest came after it ! had been announced that two other 1 British women, Miss Winifred Harle, 51-year-old daughter of a former Southampton solicitor, and Miss Florence Fnckard, had been sentenced to death for having, it is al«

j leged. listened to British broadcasts j and distributed British speeches and J tracts. | Representations by the United j States Charge d’Affaires in Paris, Mr Maynard Barnes, secured a tempori ary respite for Miss Harle, and with this assistance the British Foreign ! Office are continuing their efforts on behalf of the other two women. When the Germans entered Paris Miss James stayed to care for the 40 British and American women who were in her charge at the hostel.