Jakob Rudnik

As a result of the actions of the propagandist Willi Münzenberg an international press furore was generated about the case.

Wells, Madame Sun Yat-sen, and Henri Barbusse became involved in the International Noulens/Ruegg Defence Committee that was established and the case was discussed in both the British House of Commons and the United States Senate.

News of the couple's fate, which had previously been the subject of press speculation, was soon overshadowed by events following the Japanese invasion of the Chinese administered areas of the city of Shanghai on 28 January 1932, following the Mukden Incident.

Thus, in the few works that deal with the arrest of Rudnik and his wife on 15 June 1931, this mistake is common.

"[2] It was only in an article by Dr. Frederick Litten in the China Quarterly in 1994 that Noulens' real identity was exposed.