The Archive · 1938

Control Officer Interned

Oslo, Oct. 21.

Control officer of the Non-Intervention Committee, Mr. Jacobsen, Norwegian, disappeared today while en route to London, end, according to. his wife, he is now in a German concentration camp.

Mr. Jacobsen; a merchant marine officer by profession, was arrested near Osnabruck, the Norwegian Consulate at Hamburg reported today.

He was taken into custody after a dispute with German officials who demanded that he make an extra payment for hiş train trip in a class higher than the one shown on his ticket. The case was brought up in court and the prosecuting attorney demanded a sentence of one month in jail.

The Norwegian Consulate is now trying to obtain Mr, Jacobsen's release—Havas,

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