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GESTAPO SEARCH FOR MYSTERY R

HUNT FOR SEC GERMAN TRAINS

London, To-day.

Mystery broadcasts of messages from British La- bour leaders to German workers may emanate from one or more secret transmitters hidden in German trains travelling at high speed overl long-distance routes.

This was the theory on which Gestapo agents were working last night in their frantic efforts to discover the source of the broadcasts. ⠀⠀ Every night the mystery messages have been sent out, beginning at 10 p.m. and giving the "true version" of political events in Europe.

PANDAS MAKE A HIT AT LONDON ZOO

From time to time hundreds of Gestapo agents, equipped with mo- dern receiving sets. to locate the "Freedom" transmitter, have, driv- en criss-cross over Germany in a vain search for the secret trans- mitter.

Yesterday special translations were rushed from the Propaganda Ministry to Gestapo headquarters" of British newspaper reports in

LONDON's Zoo had to choose which Mr. J. MaNational Union of between bringing back secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, and Mr. J. Hender Baby, the Giant Panda, remov-

son, M.P., a former president of ed from exhibition, or engaging the union, admitted sending-mes- another girl to answer the telesages through the secret radio ata-

tion to German railway workers. phone inquiries about her.

So Baby is coming back, and will be on view indefinitely in her, pen in the tea pavilion, from 12 to 3 p.m. each day.

"We have been snowed under with letters of protest," a Zoo-of- ficial said..

These broadcasts from British Labour leaders to Germany, it is understood, are likely to be con- tinued and extended.

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that the transmitter of the "Every day there were at least 100 telephone calls, and the girl "German Freedom Party" as the broadcasters announce themselves had to get help in answering them.was mounted on a lorry constant-

"People who would not have ly travelling from place to place. come to the Zoo in the winter were Now they think that it may be coming just to see Baby, and mounted on one of the locomotives

of a long-distance line. bringing their children."

The broadcasts are frequently Keeper Gammon allows a few supported by pamphlets distributed of the children to touch her, as in thousands through the German she is so tame.

post, and the Gestapo Kas launched The other Pandas will be put a special effort to locate the centre on exhibition in the Spring. of the organisation responsible, This looks like being a Panda and mainly to capture the secret year. Several companies have short-wave transmitter. started manufacturing

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