GERMAN CHEMIST
SENTENCED AT BALBOA. ACTING AS SECRET FOREIGN AGENT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) BALBOA. August 19. Herr Emil Wolff, a Gorman chemist, pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent without registration. He was fined 2,000 .dollars. and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, but the sentence was suspended. Herr Wolff was removed from the Yasukuni Maru on July 2 and arrested on a narcotics charge. He admitted that he had sailed from San Francisco with a trunk containing diplomatic documents from the German Consul in San Francisco to the Consul in Valparaiso.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1940, Page 5
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