MR. PANTER RELEASED

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 35, 4 November 1933, Page 7

MR. PANTER RELEASED

- Ordered to Leave Germany SERIES OF QUESTIONS (Received November 3, 7.30 p.m.) London, November 2. Mr. Noel Banter. Munich correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph,” who has been detained in custody for several days on suspicion in connection with a report on Reichswehr manoeuvres sent to his paper, has been released. Mr. Panter is due iu London on November 4. Interviewed after his release, Mr. Banter said he signed a paper agreeing to leave Germany within forty-eight hours, failing which he would be rearrested. During the last three days he was not allowed to leave his cell, which was next door to the cell Hitler occupied after tlie Nazi “putsch” of 1923. “Throughout the interrogations I denied I was a spy or that I had ever seen military service,” lie said. “All the questions indicated that I was suspected of espionage. I emphasised thatI had always acted solely and simply, as a journalist, but I refused to disclose the sources of my information, saying this was the concern of the “Daily Telegraph.’ ” The Foreign Press Association, with the exception of German committeemen, who opposed action and withdrew prior to the vote, passed a resolution reaffirming that since the liberty of the Press was tlie basis of journalistic work, the journalist’s individual liberty should be safeguarded, and that therefore the association sympathised with Mr. Panter.