A STRANGE. IF TRUE, STORY.
THEME FOR A STARTLING ROJtAKOI. I FKB PRESS ASSOCIATION Chbistchubch, April 20. ! A correspondent of ths Prats, who vouches for the c-weetn es of the story, states that two friend a of his, a lady and .a gentleman, recently got into a train at Culv>rden on tbo way to ; Chriotcuuich. Two foreign-looking gon'lemen wore the only oilier ocoui pants of the can iige. The ady and 'geutleman, who are German noholsrs, he nd their fallow travelle s say to {each other in German: "Oh no, they i wouli not understand u»." They then IpioiuceJ maps and plans *nd lieoamo eogiossed in them, making B'd'ble remarks. The map* evidently r ferred imorepntiiulailytoth.it par' of tha cotet where the Wuiau flown in'o tha se>. Th l * men were exolaioing to each o'htr how a large body of tioops could be landed in safety, end with the utm-si ,privaoy, and how a fcroi pship could lie out of sight of tbo land during tha day and run in and land whatever was moessary at night. It is suggested that the man an German spies. j [The whih affair has very much tha i appearance of a hoax.]
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1902, Page 2
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199A STRANGE. IF TRUE, STORY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 101, 30 April 1902, Page 2
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