ITALIAN CAMPAIGN.
COST OF WAR[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION • —COPYRIGHT.] ROME' March 13. Italy's war expenditure up to the end of January last totalled £1,320,0'09COO, The monthly outlay by Italy has now reached the sum of £54,420,000. AN ITALIAN TRAITOR, CAUGHT RED-HANDED. (Received This Day at 11.25. a-m.) LONDON, March 14, The 1 ‘ IDaily Chronicle’s” Milan correspondent states" Georgio Maunrogornato, a well known successful grain exporter, who was Greek Consul at Leghorn, 'has been arrested on a charge of espionage. The authorities noticed for some time, spies lighting a series of flares along the Tuscan coast in order | to gide Austro-German submarines. They suspected Maurogornato was aiding the enemy, meeting the crews on the seashore's at night and giving information regarding sailings of skips, and giving supplies. The authorities laid a trap and caught Maurogornato and his accomplices red-handed, at a lonely seaside villa, occupied by Maurogornnto’s German mistress, who- was also arrested. Maurogornato was recently in possession of large sums of money.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1918, Page 3
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