GERMAN SHIPS INTERCEPTED

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 67, 7 August 1914, Page 5

GERMAN SHIPS INTERCEPTED

SPIES IN ENGLAND. Received G, 8.45 p.m. London, August 5. This evening the Belgians seized the Norddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Gneisetau at Antwerp and turned off the passengers, including many Australians with return tickets. After great hardships some reached London almost penniless. Tiie Agents-General are arranging for passages by an English vessel. Many German vessels have been seized in British ports, including the Elfrieda, at Bristol, the steamer Franzholm and the barque Perkim at Dover, the steamers Albert Climens on t'lie Tyne, Dryad at Warrington, Belgia at Newport (Waleß) and several colliers at Blythe. The Belgia had on board 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 twentyfour 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 German navy. The Batavia rice export has been stopped. The German cruiser Geier searched the. Dutch liner Houtman, from Australia, ut sea, and allowed the vessel' to proceed. 1 ~—«t *-