SPIES AT THE FRONT.
' I 'Apropos of the use sf tlie telephone at the front in Europe, a Press correspondent wrote recently: "Just before I dropped in "at the post command of the battery the telephone jingled from French neighbours down the line. "We've caught a couple of Boche spies/ came the message; .'they were dressed up in '!£nrerican* uni. forms. One of up had a suspicion and suddenly sprang a German sentence which one of the Bodies answered in German before he stopped to think. Then we examined their papers and they couldn't give any account of themselves.' "What are you going to do with them?' asked the listening of.
ficer. 'We're not —it's already done.' "
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Taihape Daily Times, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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117SPIES AT THE FRONT. Taihape Daily Times, 27 July 1918, Page 5
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