A New "Scarlet Pimpernel" Who Outwits Them Nazi persecution in Vienna has produced a modern "Scarlet Pimpernel'Ca young English nobleman who, like his famous namesake in the days of the French Revolution, has set himself the task of smuggling his friends out of the city of terror, which the former Austrian capital has become.
The risks he runs in tricking the Nazis were described to a "Daily Sketch" reporter on March 22 by Karl Henneberger, an Austrian now living in London, whose sister he saved from their clutches. During the last ten days, he said, I lived in constant fear for the safety of my sister, who could not get out from Austria in time.
All efforts to get in touch with her had failed, when two days ago I received - a mysterious telephone message from a caller who refused to give his name. He said that my ister was safe and he gave me an address and telephone number in Czechoslovakia where I could telephone her.
I knew the voice, but when I asked the speaker to tell me his name he rang off. I immediately put in a l to my sister and told her of the mysterious telephone call. She said to me that it was the man who saved her and many others. But she refused flatly to tell me his name over the telephone. You will know him, she said, just remember, Opera, Vienna, Figaro, last year.
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