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DUTCHMAN AND GERMAN TRIED IN HOLLAND TRANSMISSION OF MESSAGES TO REICH. AN ALLEGED CONFESSION. LONDON, March 5. A Rotterdam message reports that a 41-year-old Dutch clerk. Bakker, and a German journalist, Dreves, chief of the West German Press service, who were arrested after the discovery of a secret radio transmitter, appeared at a public trial charged with secretly transmitting messages to Germany. The prosecutor sought five years’ gaol for both accused. It is stated that the German High Command had received daily reports of Dutch weather through their secret wireless since November, these details being most useful to a foreign Power contemplating heavy artillery movements near Dutch territory. Bakker allegedly confessed that he agreed to supply weather reports to Germany for a salary of £35 a month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5
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129SECRET WIRELESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1940, Page 5
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