A GERMAN WIFE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23603, 12 March 1940, Page 10

A GERMAN WIFE

APPEAL BY A CHINESE FALSE PASSPORT CHARGE ESCAPED FROM THE GESTAPO V/ _ / [FROM OUJt OWN CORRESPONDENT] ' ( LONDON, Feb. 23 In the dock at Basingstoke Police Court stood Tso Chou Wang, Chinese student ,of;.©jigineerj,»g, He. has a German wife, , Magdalena. and when, arrested her to enter - witli a false passport he said; "My solo reason for bringmy wif© here with hj, falstj passport is "because X love her, and 1 wanted at any cost to get her away fronvthe horrors of. Germany. 1 g°t away from the Gestapo, and then got my wife "" awav from the Danish police. My wife is in a bad state of health. Please," he pleaded, "shoot me or do anything you ' ! like with me but let my wife go.' Wang said be worked in Germany for nine years. The Nazis would not recognise his marriage to a German. The Chinese authorities would not " grant her a ,passport, although she had become Chinese. They did not want to break Nazi laws, Mrs. Wang went to Denmark last Whitsun on a week-end "trip, 6tayed there. To avoid arrest of Mrs. ' ,Wang, Mr. Wang was allowed to use a passport 'belonging to Mrs. Dsou, German wife of a Chinese merchant sn Copenhagen, * ■ ... , , The Wangs went to Sweden, then came to Basingstoke, where they have been living since June last. < Both were remanded on £2O bail.