SENSATION AT APIA

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 May 1917, Page 4

SENSATION AT APIA

STRANGERS IN LIGHTHOUSE

MAN CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE

The flash of a Morse lamp signalling to sea was noticed from the pilot station at Apia on the evening of Easter Sunday, states the “Fiji Times.” A detachment was sent to investigate, with the result that four Germans were found in tho lighthouse, one of whom is a British subject. They were brought in and put under arrest. The three Germans were interned in Songi camp. The naturalised Britisher is to be tried by court-martial as a spy, ho having been identified by one of the soldiers as being in Egypt at the time of the landing of the first. New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Tho Gormans had a good equipment including American examining charts and a telescope that '"“ s set on a tripod., with a range of thirty miles.