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NAZI WRECKERS

EIGHT ARRESTED IN UNITED STATES LANDED FROM U-BOATS. WITH LOADS OF EXPLOSIVES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 28. The arrest of eight German saboteurs is announced by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. The head of the bureau, Mr Edward Hoover, said that the men left two German U-boats and landed, one party on Long Island and the other at Jacksonville beach. They were brought to within 500 yards of the shore by the submarines and then rowed ashore in rubber boats. They made several trips, their boats loaded with explosives which they buried in the sand. They then changed out of their German uniforms into American-made civilian clothing and separated. One man even got as far as Chicago before he was arrested. All the men have made full confessions that their job was to sabotage United States railways and vital defence works and also to place bombs in department stores to create panic and break down morale. They had enough equipment to last them for two years and were well supplied with funds, one group having 90,000 and the other 60,000 dollars. They admitted that they intended to sabotage important’ war plants and New York’s vital railway bridge, the Hell’s Gate bridge, as well as the Niagara Falls power plant. All the men had previously resided in the United States. One was a naturalised American and another an American by birth.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3

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NAZI WRECKERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3

NAZI WRECKERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3

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