OFFICER IN TOWER
"Broadcast Wonderful Rubbish"
For Germans
BAILLIE-STEWART INTERVIEW
Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, May 20. In an interview with a Daily Telegraph correspondent, Baillie-Stewart, formerly a lieutenant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who in 1939 was known as the "officer in the Tower, and was later cashiered and sentenced to five years' penal servitude, and is now held by the Allied forces as a prisoner in Holland, said he had worked for the German Propaganda Ministry during the past five years. "I broadcast some wonderful rubbish for them," he said.. "I protested against the silliness of this propaganda but they refused to listen. The most fatuous Piece of all was the sinking of the Ark. Royal, which I did regularly, broadcast after broadcast." Baillie-SteWart said he became a naturalised German in 1938 and still hates everything English. The British Secret Service has ruined my life," he added.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 118, 21 May 1945, Page 5
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