ESPIONAGE CHARGE
A GERMAN DOCTOR
ARREST AT HARWICH
(Received November 20, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, November 19.
The "Sketch" reports the arrest at Harwich of Dr. Hermann Gortz, a German, on a charge of espionage. He is alleged to have had possession of documents contrary to the Official Secrets Act.
Before the war Dr. Gortz studied surgery at Edinburgh, but he returned to Germany on the outbreak of hostilities and served with the German air force. After the war he fre quently visited England, occasionally accompanied by a young and beautiful golden-haired woman, believed to be his daughter or niece, who acted as his secretary. He. spent varying periods in the west of England, and also at other places near London.
Early this year he went back to Germany. In the late autumn Gortz announced that he intended to return to England for a few weeks. He was arrested as he disembarked at Harwich early this month. ■ AIR FORCE SECRETS. Dr. Gortz has been in custody for a week. The German Embassy have supplied him with a list. of Germanspeaking lawyers. It is understood that the charge related to alleged espionage at the Royal Air Force aerodrome at Manston, near Broadstairs. Dr. Gortz" was charged first with contravention of the Official Secrets Act, and secondly with conspiring with another person not in custody to commit offences against the Act.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 11
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228ESPIONAGE CHARGE Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 123, 20 November 1935, Page 11
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