AGENTS IN MEXICO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1939, Page 5

AGENTS IN MEXICO

IN TOUCH WITH GERMAN SUBMARINE EVIDENCE OF CAPTURED pigeon. SUPPOSED CODE MESSAGES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, November 12. The “New York Times’ ” Mexico City correspondent states that the first positive evidence that German submarines in the Caribbean were communicating with agents in Mexico came when a carrier pigeon fell exhausted near Mexico City. An Indian retrieved it. and it eventually reached representatives of the Allied Powers, who found a tube attached to the leg, containing three pieces of, paper. The first was a cutting from a German newspaper, in the margin of which was written the date 17/10. the time 4 a.m.. and the position, latitude and longitude, roughly 15 miles off the mouth of Panuco River. The cutting did not relate to the war but it is thought that it may have a code meaning. The writing is believed to indicate a rendezvous of a submarine with Mexican refuelling agerits. Second, there was a yellow tissue, on which was written UZ 69. apparently representing the submarine, and a German phrase, which, translated, is “Salute to distant pretty Mexico." It was signed “Lenz. Superior Captain. Navy. Thirdly, there was a white sheet, at the top of which the letters JU were repeated three times. The remainder was blank. This is believed to contain writing in invisible ink. Investigators are attempting to use the pigeon to discover where it was headed when it fell.