STEEL MAGNATE.
Famous German Escapes To France. WANTED BT NAZI POLICE. (Received 11.30 a.m.) BERXE, "March 26. Fritz Thyssen. the famous German steel magnate, for whom the German police issued an international arrest warrant on charges of embezzlement and fraud and non-payment of his income tax, has departed from Locarno, where he was given the right of asylum as a political refugee, for Paris with his wife.
All his baggage was left and he gave no forwarding address. He asked the authorities to keep his whereabouts secret.
Officials of the German Legation said they were not surprised to hear that Thyssen had gone to France. They added that he can certainly never return to the Reich.
Thyssen's friends say he still has large industrial interests outside Germanv.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 73, 27 March 1940, Page 7
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