IGNORANCE PLEA ACCEPTED
YOUNG AUSTRIAN S LETTER TO SISTER CENSORSHIP EVASION [Peh United Pkess Association.! NEW PLYMOUTH. August 26. Evasion of the censorship regulations by sending a letter otherwise than by post was admitted by a young Austrian, Kurt Freundlich. in the New Plymouth Court to-day. His explanation was that* he believed his sister was able to forward a short letter to his mother at Vienna through the Red Cross, and ha entrusted a letter to his sister and a note to his mother to an engineer on board a ship trading between England and Neu Zealand. In view of his frankness with tha police, who. said he had complied with overv regulation concerning aliens, tho defendant’s olea of ignorance of a breach of the law was accepted by the magistrate (Mr W. H. Woodward), and be was convicted and discharged.
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Evening Star, Issue 23665, 27 August 1940, Page 4
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141IGNORANCE PLEA ACCEPTED Evening Star, Issue 23665, 27 August 1940, Page 4
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