ENEMY AGENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 4

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ACTIVE IN NEW ZEALAND ACCORDING TO SYDNEY SHIPPING MEN. NEED OF PRECAUTIONS. ‘Ry Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright • SYDNEY. January 5. Shipping men here are advocating more stringent official measures ro prevent leakages of information about shipping movements. Their contention is that among the crews of neutral ships calling at Sydney and other large ports are ardent Nazi sympathisers who can be expected to listen for scraps of information likely to be useful to the enemv.

t They point out that the activity of ) enemy agents seems to be more gen- • era! and effective in New Zealand than ; in Australia and they also urge that I there should be restrictions on private ? messages from New Zealand to Austrai lia, ‘ Shipping men in Melbourne suggest that the names should be ■ from British ships and that remainder of the war they sh|Pld be known only by numbers. v The Polish Consul-General in Syd--1 noy, M. Denoskowski. has come into ; conflict with Mr Hughes, who is the J Attorney-General as well as Minister ; of the Navy, as a result of the Consul- ■ General’s disclosure to sections of the i Press that he knew of several recently- ! arrived Poles working in defence in- : dustrics of the Commonwealth who i should be dismissed instantly. I Nir Hughes said it was a most extrai ordinary thing for a consul-general to . make such a statement to the Press j and not to the responsible Minister. ‘ He added: "If he gives us the names • of these disloyal Poles we shall attend I to them.” Mr Hughes announced today that the ! Commonwealth had embarked upon the biggest round-up of spies and ■ fifth columnists" in an effort to stop the leakage of shipping information. RAIDER VICTIMS QUICK LOOK AT NAZI SHIP. CAPTAIN UPTON PRAISED. (Received This Dav. 9.40 a.mJ SYDNEY, This Day, Among the German raider victims who were able to take a quick look ! over the Manyo Maru before being horded below there is much speeula- ■ lion regarding her armaments, tonnage i and speed. There was no undue laudation of Hitler and no excess of saluting. A Rangitane officer could not speak too highly of the conduct and denicancur of their Captain Upton in dealing with the Manyo Mani’s commander, whose name is believed to be Eyssen. Captain Upton used such tact and dip-, lomacy that Captain Eyssen agreed to release mon of the Fleet Air Arm. but would not release Air Force men with a knowledge of radio work, because he said they were trained men. JAPANESE DENIAL REGARDING ALLEGED SUPPLY SHIP. ißy Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. It is staled by the Japanese Consul-ate-General. Wellington, that the assumption that the supply and prison ship used by the German raiders in the Pacific Ocean was the Osaka Syosen Kaisha motor-ship Tokyo .Maru is quite erroneous. She has been and is still in her normal service between Japan and Australia. She was at Kobe on November 26 when the Rangitane was attacked and sunk. She left Moji, Japan, on December 3 for Australia, and arrived at Brisbane on December 14.