"NAZT IN LONDON.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 81, 5 April 1940, Page 5

"NAZT IN LONDON.

A X.UHCHEOH SURPRISE. Three men sat at lunch in a Richmond (Surrey) hotel. One of them wore a black and silver uniform of a Xazi S.S.. storm trooper. ■ A constable approached the table and questioned the men while crowds looked on. Richmond police had received an anonymous 'phone call that a Xazi prisoner who had escaped from a camp had gone into the hotel. But the policeman, after a few, minutes' conversation, went away satisfied and smiling. This was why: The "Xazi" was Bernard Miles, the film actor. Hie friends were John Boulting. producer, and Roy Boulting, director, all engaged in making "Pastor Hall" at Twickenham studios, a film based on the life of Pastor Xiemoller, the German persecuted prelate. "We were shooting concentration camp scenes yesterday," John Boulting told Ithe "Sunday Dispatch." "At lunch-time we motored across to the hotel for a meal, and we were eur-i prised when the policeman came in about 1 five minutes after we reached the hotel.

j "He told us about the telephone call |and asked for an explanation of the uniform end the swastika armlet "We explained that there wasnt enough time for Bernard Miles to change into ordinary clothes and back into uniform again during the break for |lUßch,"