SUBMARINE BASE
JAPANESE PLOT SMASHED IN BRAZIL TWENTY ARRESTS MADE. SEIZURE OF PETROL STORES & ARMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW YORK, March 31. The United Press correspondent in Sao Paulo, Bazil, says that an attempt by the Japanese to create a secret Axis submarine base in the South Atlantic is believed to have been smashed with the arrest of 20 Japanese in the coastal town of Juquia. A base was constructed along an isolated beach, and the police found huge quantities of gasoline nearby. They also found 40'0,000 rifle bullets and a large number of automatic riot rifles in a raid'on an unnamed locality. Eleven Japanese were arrested in the city of Mesquita when the police broke up a meeting at which they found a military map of Brazil showing strategic points marked in red ink. The police at Porto Alegre arrested three Germans from the outlawed Nazi Christiensen Group. One of those arrested is a lieutenant in the Nazi Reichswehr.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1942, Page 4
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