LAWYER-NOVELIST?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 6

LAWYER-NOVELIST?

GERMAN SPY CHARGED EVIDENCE AGAINST GORTZ >h.N>AH<JNAL ALLEGATIONS Received Nov. 27. IL3U p.m. LONDON, Nov.' 27. bvri,:, tall, clean-shaven and pale, »as charged at Margate with spying in thv interests of Germany. Mr. Parham, for the Public Prese---aid Gertz o u his arrival at Harwich ou August 29, described him--eli as a lawyer-novelist proceeding- tv •a ml nidge to study. He actually went t.. Mildenball and took a bungalow at Itruadstairs. On .September 14, accompanied by the girl .Marianne Emig. -tated to be Gertz's niece, thev went to Germany. At t he end of October iciiimed alone and was arrested. Kenneth Lewi.-, a young aircrafts in the Royal Air* F.-tte, told how, v. biie at home un leave from Le-e-or >olent. he met Marianne, who offered Lt Ip when be was having motor-cycle i rouble. He had tea with Gortz and Marianne next day. Gortz Uld of his vKptiience.s in the German Air Force. The ccnvcrsaiiou worked round to thv Royal Air Force. Their injoruiaiivii in that connection surprised him. Marianne said she was a glider and asked him to send hei photographs of Royal Air Force machines, telling him to remember that, ■ u the event of another war, Germany would be on the English side. He sent photographs of machines, a semi aerial \ iew of the Lee-on-Solent air station ami a few newspaper cuttings which wen* of no value. When he wrote he used Royal Air Force notepaper at her request. Cross-examined. Lewis said he did not supply any secret information. Hie photographs were obtainable at a shop. Major Similcy Cook, of the War Office, produced notes relating to the aeroplanes, also a cipher and other documents and notebooks, one coutaiu!ing the address of Dr. Thost. a Ger'mau journalist recently expelled from 1 London. ’ Gortz. in a statement tu the police. ;.-ai»l he was merely collecting material tor a novel. His movements were not ! secret. He went tu Germany only be- ’ cause he was short of ready money. • The Court heard several witnesses t privately, after which Gortz was reI manded fur a week with a view to his committal for trial at the ’’ld Itailey in January.