WIRELESS HOAX.
LISTENERS-1N WAIT ADDRESS ON PEACE. AMAZED TO HEAR FLAMING EULOGY OF REDS. ORIGINAL SPEAKER KIDNAPPED AND IMPERSONATED. United Press Assn, by El. Tel. Copyriehi Australian Press Assn. —United Service. BERLIN, Oct. 7. One million German wireless listeners were hoaxe’d by a Saturday evening programme when it was 8-d* nounced that the Socialist, Herr Wolfgang Schwarz, would lecture' on the problem of ensuring peace, but listeners were amazed to hear a flaming eulogy of Communism and Soviet Russia, with a violent denunciation of Socialism, ending in an appeal to support Communism, demand a plebiscite, and forbid the construction of warships. It was revealed later that a Communist had impersonated Herr Schwarz, whom three Communists kidnapped and conveyed at the pomt of a revolver to a lonely village several miles from Berlin, where he was left stranded.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10712, 9 October 1928, Page 5
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