PASSENGER’S ALLEGATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 7

PASSENGER’S ALLEGATION

BEING DEPORTED TO GERMANY

lOCKED IN CABIN OF AMERICAN LINER

(United Preßs Association-By Electno Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, 30th January. When the United States liner President Roosevelt, bound for Hamburg, called at Plymouth from New York a passenger handed the Press a statement from a fellow passenger, DiGeorge Bresin, to the effect that he was being deported to Gerniany from Ellis Island locked in a cabin. Dr. Bresin has been an anti-Nazi worker, and fears death bv torture from Ihe Nazis. He says that he is in possession of information regarding Nazi activities in Ethiopia affecting vital interests of the British Government. He claims that he was horn in Franco, and that his mothers who came of a British family, is living in England. He hopes the French authorities will intervene when the ship calls at Havre on Friday