MISTAKEN IDENTITY IN RADIO REPORT OF KILLING IN MALAYA
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, March 25. Seventy-two hours after his New Zealand relatives had assumed his death, a senior officer of the police force in Malaya, Mr. W. P. Thompson, was reported to be safe and unhurt. Mistaken identity is thought to be the reason for a 8.8. C. announcement that Mr. Thompson had been killed at Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. After hearing a London broadcast on Thursday morning and checking with other listeners and a radio studio in Auckland. Mr. Thompson’s sister, Mrs. F. H. Hollingsworth, of Rcrnuern, sent cablegrams of sympathy to her father in London and another brother who is serving with the R’oyal Corps of Signals in Singapore. The father replied that it was a mistake and that the brother answered with a reassuring report that he had himself been speaking to Mr. Thompson a few hours before.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23212, 25 March 1950, Page 6
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148MISTAKEN IDENTITY IN RADIO REPORT OF KILLING IN MALAYA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23212, 25 March 1950, Page 6
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