ENEMY SPIES
POSING AS REFUGEES TWO EXECUTED IN LONDON. FOUND IN POSSESSION OF WIRELESS SETS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 10. It has been announced, by the Home Office that two enemy agents acting on behalf of Germany have been executed. They were arrested soon after their arrival in this country. One was a German - nd the other a Dutch-born subject. They managed to come to Britain by surreptitious methods. Both were in possession of wireless receiving and transmission sets and had on them considerable sums of money. Their instructions were to pose as refugees and move about among the people, securing information. They were given to understand that they would shortly be relieved by German invading forces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 5
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118ENEMY SPIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 5
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