WITHDRAWAL ASKED
GERMAN CONSUL AT
LIVERPOOL
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, June 14.
Questioned in the House of Commons on the results of his inquiry into allegations made at the Manchester Assizes on May 19 that the German Consul in Liverpool, Herr Reinhardt, had assisted a man named Kelly to make contacts with foreign agents on the Continent to whom he sold plans of a Government factory, the Prime Minister said: —
"In view of what transpired from the proceedings in the Court, the British Government must accept the conclusion that the German Consulate was implicated in this case, and Britain las therefore requested Germany to rrange for the withdrawal of the Con•il."
ESPIONAGE IMPLICATION
DENIED
(Received June 16, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, June 15. It is officially denied that the Consul at Liverpool was implicated in espionage, and that Germany reserves the •ight to retaliate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 140, 16 June 1939, Page 10
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