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BRITISH NAVAL MAN TO STAND TRIAL Recd. 8.30 p.m. London, Nov. 21. Allegations that a former junior British navalman defied his senior officer’s instructions at a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany and had broadcast for the enemy was made at Bow Street’when Walter Purdy, aged 27, engineer, of Putney, was charged with high treason. The prosecution alleged that before Purdy, on May 10, 1945, was transfererd from a prisoners-of-war camp in Germany Io a “holiday camp” near Berlin, a British naval captain warned him, and other prisoners, to do nothing to assist the Germans. Purdy, however, began to broadcast under the name of Pointer, from Berlin for the Germans in the autumn of 1943, at a station which was called “Radio Naticnal” and pretended to be a secret English station. Purdy became enthusiastic and broadcast jnainly anti-Jewish talks. He was committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 276, 22 November 1945, Page 5
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