A REMARKABLE STORY
I Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. | LONDON November 14. I A remarkable story was revealed in the Prize Court. The steamer Mazat)an flying the Mexican flag attempted to wireless to the German' cruiser Leipzig details of sailings and positions of British ships. ' , The scheme was defeated by the resourcefulness of (smith an English wireless operator aboard the Mazatlan who secretly put the wireless out of tune and altered, the wave length, whenever the German operator was troing on duty. Smith occasionally communicated with the Leipzig in case she should guess the wireless was wrong. On one. oecason the captain ordered Smith to send a code message to the Leipzig, when Smith refused a s a Briton. The Mnzatlnn’s officers threatened to shoot him, so Smith then pretended to send the message and worked the keys so that sparks were seen. Finally the British captured the Mazntinn off the Falkland Islands.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1917, Page 3
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154A REMARKABLE STORY Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1917, Page 3
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