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GERMAN ESPIONAGE AND BRIBERY. Received P., 10 pjn. Fremantle, September !). Passengers by the Mboltan state that when at Colombo they learned that after a prominent German had left it was discovered that he had been acting as a spy. He bad bribed a colored wireless operator to send, a warning message to approaching German vessels, enabling them to escape. The operator confessed, and was court-martialled and shot.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 5
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68AUSTRALIA Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 5
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