ABDUCTED OFFICERS
NO PEACE OFFER AUTHORISED:
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RUGBY, February 21, The Uhd6r-Se<?retary of Foreign. .Affaire- (Mr Btxtler) stated in a Commons’ reply that so far as was known, Captain Best and Major Stevens, abducted by the German police near the Dutch' frontier a few months ago were still in Berlin.. Mr Butler said there was no question of these officers carryink peace proposals on behalf of the British Govefninerit. “All; they authorised to. <jo was to listen to and report upon the approach which had been made from' the German side. The exact nature of this approach could not be ascertained, in view of the forcible abduction of these officers On Netherlands, territory, by agents of the Germah Government.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1940, Page 8
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