FATE OF BRITAIN
GLOOMY PREDICTION GERMAN WOMAN SPY INVASION OF ENGLAND MOSLEY TO BE RULER (Elec. T«I. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. June 1, 1.53 p.m.) i LONDON, May 31. ".The Germans ,\yill be in. Eng'lapd within three weeks. The Royal Family and the members o£ the Cabinet will be publicly executed. Sir Oswald Mosley will.become ruler of Britain under German control.” ibis' statement was,,attributed to the; .German wife of, a Royal Air Force sergeant, Mrs. Marie Louise Augusta Ingram, \yhen she,, together with William Swift and, Archibald Watts were charged at Portsmouth' under the Official Secrets Act.
The prosecution, said that Mrs. Ingram was employed as. a. domestic by a senior officer on important duties for the Admiralty. Mrs. Ingram ■ urged the man to join the British Union of Fascists. She confided that her brother-in-law wa's a member of the staff of the German High Command who she was supplying with information. ■ : The police arrested the defendants on ( May 2.3. If the offences had occurred less than a week later they wduld have been .before the court on charges punishable by death. The defendants were committed for trial at the Old Bailey.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20262, 1 June 1940, Page 8
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