GERMAN SPIES AT APIA
The flash of a. Morse lamp, states the "Fiji Times," signalling to sea was noticed from the pilot station at Apia oh the evening of Easter Sunday. A detachment was.sent to investigate, with the result that four Germans were found in the lighthouse, one of whom is a British subject. • They were brought_ in and put under arrest. The three Germans wcro interned in Songi camp. Tho naturalised Briton is to be tried by courtmartial as a spy, he having been identified Iγ one of the-soldiers as being iu Egypt at the time of the landing of the first New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The Germans had a good equipment, including American examining charts nnd a telescope that was set on a tripod, with a range of 30 miles.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 5
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132GERMAN SPIES AT APIA Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 5
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