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GERMAN WEATHER SPY DROPPED IN HOME COUNTIES. CAUGHT WITH WIRELESS SET. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 15. A German secret service agent, Josef Jakobs, was shot in the Tower of London this morning. Jakobs, who was a non-commissioned officer in the German army and was attached to the meteorological service, was dropped by parachute from a German aeroplane in the Home Counties.
He was dressed in civilian clothes, over which he was wearing a flyingsuit and a parachutist’s steel helmet. He had a wireless transmitting and receiving set, a large sum in English money and emergency food rations, including brandy and German- sausage. He also carried a small hand-spade for burying the parachute and flying kit. He was taken into custody by members of the Home Guard about .12 hours after his descent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 5
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136EXECUTED IN TOWER Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1941, Page 5
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