“SIMPLY FURIOUS”

Evening Star, Issue 22974, 3 June 1938, Page 12

“SIMPLY FURIOUS”

ENGLISH GIRL'S ADVENTURES STOPPED AND SEARCHED BY CZECH POLICE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright PRAGUE, June 2. (Received June 3, at 1 p.m.) “ I am simply furious,” said Miss Unity Mitford, referring to her detention- and search by Czech police on the Prague-Carlsbad road on May 31- Sho added that a gendarme snatched a framed photograph of Herr Hitler which she was carrying. The frame was broken in the tussle, but she retained the picture. She was then taken to a police post, where, in the presence of a woman, she was forced to undress completely,-and every article of clothing was examined., Everyone was most abusive. Miss Mitford’s property was.later returned, with the exception .of her camera and films. She, is still under supervision of the police, ■ and will leave for Germany tonight. GERMANY MAKES CAPITAL OUT OF INCIDENT BERLIN, Jane 2. (Received June 3, at 1.5 p.m.) The newspapers are seizing on the Mitford incident for the purpose of an attack on Czechoslovakia, describing the arrest as a new act of terror. They, ask what the British public intend to do about another European scandal. [At a big demonstration in Hyde Park, which passed a resolution condemning non-intervention in Spain, the crowd charged a smart blonde wearing a swastika. The police formed a cor--don and placed the girl and her male escort aboard a bus. The ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ says the girl wearing the. swastika was Unity Freeman MitfonL daughter of Lord Redesdale.] .