Monday, Jan. 11, 1932
Konigs-Wusterhausen Fooled
Broadcasting pious and patriotic sentiments last week, the 84-year-old voice of President Paul von Hindenburg suddenly changed into a young man's raucous shout: "ATTENTION! The shadow of Communism is over Germany! PROLETARIANS UNITE!"
When the sudden shout startled millions of Germans their President was actually saying, "Let us face the coming days and their trials hand-in-hand. Let us not waver. . . . The Lord has saved Germany from deep distress before. He will not forsake us now."
Shrewd Reds, recently discharged by Berlin Telephone Co., had opened a manhole, tapped a microphone into the telephone cable carrying Old Paul's voice from Berlin to the Konigs-Wusterhausen broadcasting station and shouted.
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