MR. PANTER INTERVIEWED
SUSPECTED OF ESPIONAGE. ACTED SOLELY AS JOURNALIST. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, November 3. Mr Noel Panter, interviewed after his release, said that he signed a paper agreeing to leave Germany within 48 hours, failing which he would be rearrested. During the last three days ho was not allowed to leave his cell, which was next door to that which Herr Hitler occupied after the Nazi putsch of 1923. "Throughout the interrogations I denied that I was a spy or had ever seen military service,’’ he said. "All the questions indicated that I was suspected of espionage. I emphasised that I had always acted solely and eimply as a journalist, but refused to disclose the sources of my information, saying that this was the concern of the ‘Daily Telegraph.’ ’’ The Foreign Press Association, with the exception of the German committeemen who opposed the action and withdrew prior to the vote, passed a resolution reaffirming that since the liberty of the press—the basis of journalistic work —and jouranlists’ individual liberty should be safeguarded, they therefore sympathised with Panter.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 276, 4 November 1933, Page 9
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179MR. PANTER INTERVIEWED Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 276, 4 November 1933, Page 9
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