Public opinion here continued to be aroused by the mysterious death of the two women, German Jewish refugees, who are believed to have been poisoned by Nazi agents because they knew too much about the Nazi spying activities among German refugees abroad.
Scotland Yard officials were busy today investigating the case in the belief that it may lead to the discovery of a ring of Nazi agents operating from London throughout the whole of Europe and engaged chiefly in kidnaping or murdering refugees from Germany who happen to be well posted on German military secrets. One of the victims of this ring was Berthold Jacob, German Jewish journalist who was kidnaped by the Nazis from Basle on March 9 and taken into Germany.
LINKED TO JACOB CASE
The mysterious death of the two German Jewish women here is being linked with the kidnaping of Herr Jacob. Both women, Dora Fabian and Mathilde Wurm-Adler, are known to have been personal friends of the journalist. Miss Fabian, who was 35 years old, assisted the Swiss authorities in their investigations with regard to the Jacob kidnaping. She was described yesterday by Anton Ganz, Swiss public prosecutor who is investigating the Jacob case, as “one of the most brilliant brains exiled from Germany by the Nazi revolution.”
Both Miss Fabian and Mrs. Wurm-Adler were closely connected with the Social-Democratic movement in Germany. Miss Fabian was secretary to Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, the former Jewish Social-Democratic Prussian Minister of Justice, and Mrs. Wurm-Adler for twelve years was a Socialist member of the Reichstag.
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