OPENED ON RAIDER
LN QUEST FOR INFORMATION LOOTED AUSTRALIAN MAILS. BAGS WASHED UP ON PACIFIC ISLAND. i By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright < (Received This Day. 12.55 p.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. Bags of Australian mail, which had been opened and examined for information have been washed up on to an island in the Pacific Ocean. This was revealed by an army spokesman, who said the mails were from one of the ships sunk when an enemy raider was operating recently in the Pacific, Every letter recovered had been opened. The spokesman said it was obvious that the mails had been searched by intelligence officers on the raider who were seeking information about Australian shipping or milittary movements.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 6
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114OPENED ON RAIDER Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 6
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