BRITONS SAY POLES GAVE THEM INJECTIONS TO MAKE THEM TALK
LONDON, Dec 23 (Recd 6 pm).— Two British Merchant Navy officers who have been gaoled for seven months in Warsaw, said in London today 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 Turner, now gaoled 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 with continually repeated questions—“until eventually you were so muddled you didn’t know what, you said.’ A Polish court, on December 18. sentenced Nelmes and Upperton to seven months, but released them because they were arrested in May. Turner, a former air attache at the British Emoassy in Warsaw, was sentenced to 18 months and Bobrowska. to 12 months.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 26 December 1950, Page 5
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