CHARGES DISPROVED.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 33, 18 November 1939, Page 5

CHARGES DISPROVED.

DETAINED GERMAN WOMAN. TREATMENT IN BRITAIN. '7. J- LONDON,' November , 16. In a broadcast in English from Hamburg on November 14 was included a talk by a woman purporting to be Fraulcin Ewe Wagner, formerly secretary of the German Consulate in Glasgow. In the talk,’ charges were made against the British authorities on account of her treatment while under detention in Scotland. Similar charges have already been denied.

Fraulein Wagner, like other members of the Consulate staff, was treated as an untried p t erson and enjoyed all the privileges of this class. On being liberated on October 3, Fraulein Wagner, like the Consul himself and another woman member of the staff who had been detained, expressed warm thanks to all concerned for the kindly and considerate treatment they had received, and on October 4 Fraulein Wagner wrote from an address in Glasgow to one of the Glasgow officials: “Dear Miss Ferguson, —Before I am leaving this country I would like to thank you for your great kindness, and I wished I was able to show myself in some way grateful to you. Would you please be good enough to convey to the other lady officers, who might inquire where I disappeared' to,, that I have gone back to Germany and am thanking every one of you for your great kindness. I am sure there will be many times when I shall he thinking back of the time I spent under the stern, eye of our little gaoleress. Wishing you and everyone else the best luck—and we may hope to be able to meet again.— Yours gratefully, Eve.”—British Official Wireless.