FORCED TO TALK
Britons At Warsaw Trial POLES USE INJECTIONS NZPA—Copyright ■ Rec. 11 p.m. LONDON, Dec. 25. Two British merchant navy officers who had been imprisoned for seven months in Warsaw, said in London yesterday that Polish Communists gave them injections to make them talk. They are Gordon Nelmes and Henry Upperton, who were taken off the British steamer Baltavia with Group Captain Claude Henry Turner, former air attache at the British Embassy in Warsaw, who was last week sentenced to imprisonment by a Polish State court for aiding a Polish girl, Barbara Bobrowska, in an attempted escape. Both were charged with aiding the escape. 'The officers claimed that the Communists interrogated them under glaring lights and continually repeated their questions—“ until eventually you were so muddled that you did not know what you said.” Nelmes and Upperton were sentenced to seven months’ imprisonment but were released because they were arrested in May. Miss Bobrowska was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27581, 26 December 1950, Page 5
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