MISSING SOLDIER SON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20596, 21 June 1930, Page 29 (Supplement)

MISSING SOLDIER SON.

« MOTHER'S " VISIT STOPPED.

alleged victimisation.

The British Passport Office intervened recently to save a Hull woman from what they believe to be victimisation at the hands of » Hungarian. They were holding up the application for a passport by Mrs. Fred Newlove, who wished to visit the man whom she believed to be her missing soldier son. Mrs. Newlove first got in touch with the mysterious Hungarian when 6he saw his photograph in a newspaper and claimed to have recognised him. He was found as a stowaway on a ship at Rotterdam, and was believed to be .suffering from loss of memory and speech. Mrs. Newlove was unable to raise the money to visit Rotterdam and the man, who was given the name of Paul Horn, and then thought to be a Hungarian, was sent to Hungary. A letter received in Hull stated definitely that the passport was being withheld. It was pointed out in the letter that several British women, whose sons are missing through the war, have been victimised bv men, who have made extraordinary claims, and the authorities were anxious to protect Mrs. Newlove from what might be a painful experience in a strange country. The letter also referred to the visit of Mrs. Paul, a Sunderland woman, to Hungary, to see the same man, who claimed to be Mrs. Newlove's son, but the Hull mother stated that Mrs. Paul has never been to Hungary, and could not, therefore, have been cruelly treated as the letter suggests. ■ ... - The letter stated also that thb British Foreign Office is convinced that the man is Paul Horn, and has placed certain facts in their possession before Commander Kenworthy, M.P., who-provided the greater part of the money for tho proposed journey. " There is no doubt," Mrs. Nowlovo stated, " that the man is not a fraud nor an impostor, and I still bclicvo ho is my son. Ho has never claimed to he Mrs. Paul's son.

" All his letters to me are signed ' Your loving son, Bill.' Bill is the name of my son, who wna missing after going over the top with tho 13th Battalion J£ast Yorkshire Regiment on the Sommo in Soptomhcr, 1910.'*