FURTHER ARRESTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 154, 1 July 1940, Page 8

FURTHER ARRESTS.

Action Against Pro-Germans In

Britain.

LADY MOSLEY DETAINED.

LONDON, June 30,

Lady Mosley, wife of the British Fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, and Captain G. H. L. F. Pitt-Rivers have been detained under the defence regulations. The Home Office yesterday also ordered the detention of a rector, the Rev. H. E. B. Nye, and a vicar, the Rev. -J. Vivian Thomas, both of Lincolnshire. The windows of Mr. Nye's rectory were stoned in 1937 after he had contributed a pro-German article to the Fascist newspaper "Action." Lady Mosley is a daughter of Lord Redesdale and a sister of the Hon. Unity Freeman Mitford. She is Sir Oswald Mosley's second wife and has herself l>een twice married, the first time to the Hon. Bryan Guinness, from whom she obtained a divorce in 1934. Captain Pitt-Rivers is a former privato secretary and A.D.C. to a Governor-General of Australia. In 1921 he conducted field work in anthropology in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago, and in 1923 was president of the ethnology and anthropology section of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. He was born in 1890 and is a Bachelor of Science of Oxford University. He was formerly a captain in the Royal Dragoons and served in the Great War.