WIRELESS COMEDY.
HOAX BY COMMUNISTS. QUAINT GERMAN INCIDENT. Australian Press Association—United Service BERLIN. Oct. 7. A million German wireless listeners were hoaxed on Saturday evening. It was announced that a socialist, Herr Wolfgang Schwarz, would lecture on the problem of ensuring peace. However, listeners were amazed to hear a flaming eulogy of Communism and Soviet Russia, with a violent denunciation of Socialism. The speaker ended by appealing to all to support Communism, to demand a plebiscite and to forbid the construction of warships. It was revealed later thai a Communist had impersonated Ilerr Schwarz. llio latter was kidnapped by three other Communists and conveyed at the point of revolver to a luncly village several miles from Berlin. There he was left stranded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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122WIRELESS COMEDY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20072, 9 October 1928, Page 11
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