HUNGER STRIKE ENDED
NAZI AGENT TRICKED
How* a Nazi agent in an Australian internment camp abruptly ended a hunger strike when two undertakers began to measure him tor a coffin is told in a booklet,, "Keeping Information from the. Enemy," compiled by Australian Military ligcnccThe. agent refused food and became thinner and weaker. In spite of medical attention his condition grew worse. Military Intelligence then sent two undertakers' assistants to the camp. They began to measure the gent. "The undertakers expressed pleasure in crude language, that, despite its size,, the corpse, would be light to carry to the grave," the booklet says. "The prisoner recovered as soon as they left, and is now the most tractable man interned in Australia." The booklet says that enciny agents are still operating in Australia. One captured agent was replaced by an Australian Intelligence officer who closely resembled him and qulcky picked up his mannerisms. For some time the Australian operated within Ihe enemy espionage system, picking up useful information, and securing evidence which later imprisoned two other enemy agents.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/BPB19440128.2.26
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176HUNGER STRIKE ENDED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 44, 28 January 1944, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Beacon Printing and Publishing Company is the copyright owner for the Bay of Plenty Beacon. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Beacon Printing and Publishing Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in