RUSE THAT SAVED SUVA
• '£ QUICK-WITTED GOVERNOR). By Telegraph—Press Association—Gopyrlglit , _ London, September 22. The incident is related that when tho German, cruisers ...Scharehorst aild •Gniesenau were cruising, in the; neighbourhood of Fiji eru'ly m the war, Sir Ernest Sweet-Escott, the Governor of Fiji,, wiho is now in England, by v, clever ruse prevented an attack. He eent : the following wireless message :— "Patey, Australia—Received your message.- Expect you in the morning." TheiGerman cruisers picked up the message find altered their,course. Subsequently a letter from' a German naval officer showed that the wireless jnessage caused the cruisers to change their plans, and Spare Suva.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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101RUSE THAT SAVED SUVA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2576, 25 September 1915, Page 5
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