NAZI BROADCASTS

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22762, 10 November 1945, Page 5

NAZI BROADCASTS

ADMISSIONS IN COURT WOMAN AND SON FOR TRIAL IN NEED OF MONEY (By Tel.—Press Assn.—CoDy right) (Received Nov. 10, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 9 Alleged admissions by a woman and her son that they had broadcast for the Nazis to get money to support themselves were read in the Bow Street Court today. Mrs Frances Dorothy Eckersley, aged 51, and her son by a former marriage. James Royston Clark, aged 22, were charged j with conspiracy to aid the enemy. | Mrs Eckersley’s alleged statement I said that before the war she was a | mer'ber of the Imperial Fascist I League. She was in Germany at the outbreak of war and decided to | remain, but soon spent all her money ■ and.accepted a job on the German | radio announcing titles for musical ; numbers on the transmission to Eng- ! land. | An alleged statement was also read j from Clark stating that after he had ! unsuccessfully sought other employment a Gestapo official who was : closely associated with William Joyce I engaged him as a news reader at a I salary of £9 a week. “ I appreci- | ated that my broadcasts were eni tirely anti-British,” said the state- ! ment, “ but at that time I had no obI jection to this as I was still in the 1 hysterical state of mind which had been fostered by the Nazis.” Both accused were remanded to Wednesi day prior to committal to the Old ! Bailey.