ARRESTS IN BERLIN.
MR. CATCHPOOL DENOUNCED BY WASHERWOMAN. RETORTS ONLY, TO QUAKERS. (Received Wednesday, 8.55 p.m.) BERLIN, April 5. The arrest df Mr. R. C. Catchpool, International secretary of the Society of Friends, (reported yesterday), was due to a washerwoman, who jumped to the conclusion that bundles of leaflets and pamphlets in English must be seditious, although she could not read them. The Nazis found copies of his reports to England on the situation in Germany, but the contents have never been disclosed outside of Quaker circles. Mr. Geoffrey Fraser, a British subject and alleged Communist, was arrested, not by the police but by Hitler storm troops. MB. CATCHPOOL RELEASED. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) Mr c+ I. 1 BERLIN, April 5. Air. Catchpool has been released as trial 8 or°b^ USpeCte -l ° f tl7ia « “> cvade trial or hiding evidence.
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Wairarapa Age, 6 April 1933, Page 5
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