ITALY.
EXTINGUISHING GERMAN PROPAGANDA. Rome, March 14. A squadron of enemy aeroplanes flying over the Italian positions dropped manifestoes and illustrated journals urging the futility of further Italian resistance. Italian and British aeroplanes immediately attacked the enemy machines, of which four were destroyed.
ARREST OF A TRAITOR. London, March 14. The Milan correspondent of the Daily Chronicle states that Georgii Maurogovjiato. a well known and successful grain exporter, who war! Greek Consul at Leghorn, has Ibeen arrested on a charge of espionage. The authorities had noticed for some time spies lighting a series of flares along the Tuscan coast, in order to guide Austro-German submarines, and it was suspected that Maurogornato was aiding the enemy by meeting the crews on the seashore at night and giving information regarding the sailing of ship 3 and giving supplies. The authorities laid a trap and caught Maurogornato and- his accomplices red-handed at a lonely seaside villa occupied by Maurogomdto's German mistress, who was also arrested. Maurogornato was recently in possession of large sums of money.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 March 1918, Page 5
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