GERMAN SHIPS AND SPIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 7 August 1914, Page 6

GERMAN SHIPS AND SPIES.

[Jjv ;EiißCTiuc Tioi-kohapk—Copykight] [United Press Association,] London, August 5. This evening the Belgians seized the Xorddetttscher-Lloyd steamer Gneiseuau at Antwerp and turned oft the passengers, including many Australians with return tickets. After great hardships-some reached London almost penniless. , The Ageivts-Genevfll are arranging for pasasges by an English -vessel. Many German 5 vessels have been seized in British ports, including the Elfrleday at Bristol; tbw steamer Fvamdiolm and the barque Perkim at Dover, the steamers -Albert Climens on the Tyne,--Dryad at Warrington, Belgia at Ktnvporfc (.Wales), and several colliers at Blythe. The Belgia had on hoard. German reservists; and also- food worth a quarter of a -million sterling. A French gunboat captured-a collier in the Channel, and towed her to Guernsey. Mr McKenna’s Bill passed the House of Commons, securing control of dangerous aliens during the war. Mr McKenna stated that twenty-one suspects have been arrested in the last twenty-four hours, some of them being known to be spies. Four Germans were remanded at Bow Street. A quantity of memoranda was seized on one prisoner, who declared that he had been a commander in the Gorman navy. The German cruiser Geier searched the Dutch liner Houtman, from Australia, at sen, and allowed the vessel' to proceed. Detectives raided houses occupied by Gormans in London and arrested several. Thev,fqyiul a number of bombs and rifles m a pork butcher s shop at EarisliehL • Sydney, August 6.

A meeting of Germans in the Mallawalla- district, adopted a resolution of unswerving loyalty to the Britisu flag, and as Australian-born are propared to stand shoulder to shoulder with Australians, and to give thoir Wood and their money for the defence of the country and the British flag, no matter who the invaders may ha.