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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 226, 17 June 1915, Page 5

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A GERMAN DECEPTION, SPY PARADES AS RED CROSS DOCTOR. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) I WASHINGTON, June 16. I TII2 Stats Department has ordered

an investigation into charges regard- ; ing the person supposed to be Doctor : Anton Meyer Gerhard, of the German Red Cross who was recently raising 'funds in the United States, and was given a safe conduct home to Germay, but who really was Dr Alfred Meyer, the head of the Ammunition Purchasing Department for th e German Government. It is alleged that Meyer acted as a spy while ostensibly on a Red Cross tour. COTTON CONTRABAND. MUNITIONS PURCHASE. NO MIDDLE MAN WANTED. , . (Reed 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, June 16. The "Daily Mail" renews the campaign against cotton cargoes, and demands that neutrals must prove that such cargo is not intedned to reach the enemy. It says that now there are more cotton ships at Gathenburg than before the war. Other neutral ports in Holl- j and, Denmark and Greece were.playing a similar part in fear of offending America. , Manchester has offered to negotiate for the purchase of the whole of the American crop at an excellent price. The "Daily Chronicle" says one of the most important problems f6r the new Minister of Munitions is involved in a contract whereby Pierpqnt Morgan's firm acts as agents for Britain in all purchases of munitions in America. 1 There is a growing desire for reviision of items in the contract. The belief is widespread that however justifiable they might; have been in the early days of war to employ middlemen suck a course .was-no longer necessary. . ■ '. ■' ' i_ A CORRECTION. '^<ff^fi ,;> ? ■":, * % - ; %®&p®£i s*&-ic: -'■', r ."". The; - Vrcss : Bureau, % fca' : .ear?-3£ticn; j soys it was a. German aeroplane that was bt'CßgM down at Naroy Sirpeorcfc.: