TREASON CHARGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21977, 22 March 1946, Page 3

TREASON CHARGE

NAVAL J3TOKER DATA GIVEN TO NAZIS RADAR AND DEFENCES LONDON, March 20. A stoker, Henry Herbert Rose, aged 23, pleaded not guilty at a Portsmouth court-martial to three charges of traittorously giving intelligence to the Germans. The prosecution stated that the mermans captured Rose when a motor torpedo-boat in which he served was sunk off the Dutch coast in 1943. Rose gave information about the motor tor-pedo-boats' radar and showed the Germans snapshots of British naval ports and marked the anti-aircraft gun-

sites on a map of Portsmouth. He indicated the whereabouts of the British trans-Channel railway gun and provided an eight-page typewritten dossier on the naval harbour facilities at Portsmouth.

The prosecution alleged that Rose was later transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp where he mixed with British prisoners from Italy with orders to collect information from them.. He was repatriated in May. 1945, and was interrogated in August when he admitted working for the Germans but said he did so only because he thought he would be able to escape. Elsa Gertrude Brietzman, aged 34. an assistant cashier, was bound over for two years after pleading guilty at the Old Bailey to a charge of assisting and entering the service of the German broadcasting service. It was stated by the defence that she was dual nationality. British and German.