Kidnapped!

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 51, 5 July 1929, Page 7

Kidnapped!

(THE great day had arrived, All Germany was getting its radio receivers ready to tune in on the speech of a prominent Socialist Minister on armaments. The microphones were placed and the station was ready. Herr Minister stepped into a high-powered car and was on his way. . Suddenly the car was stopped. Holdup men were at the Minister, He was siezed, quickly taken away, and placed in captivity. At the radio station, right on the hour, a gracious gentleman introduced himself as the speaker of the occasion, and calmly stepping up to the microphone addressed the German nation on the subject .of arrhaments. As the speech came-through the audience gasped in amazement. Surely something was wrong. Surely Herr Minister could not be serious. Why, every word was in direct opposition to his party’s known position. The speech went on in this vein and was finished. The listeners were right. Something was wrong. An able speaker of the Communist Party had presented himself and given an opposing address over stations arranged for by the Socialists: It took until the next day to fathom the plot. On that day, just 24 hours. after -his seizure, the Socialist Minister was released.