False alarm
Hundreds of worried people telephoned the police and the West German Regional Radio Station in Cologne yesterday after a radio programme purporting to describe the collapse of part of Cologne Cathedral. A member of the radio station’s staff said that the programme, designed to help to raise money needed for cathedral repairs, was planned along the lines of the broadcast adaptation of *H. G. Wells’s "The War of the Worlds," by the American actor and producer, Otson Welles, in 1938. Many panicstricken listeners then thought that America was being invaded by Martians.— Cologne, Oct. 14.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33665, 15 October 1974, Page 19
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