SPY FROM SUBMARINE.
STORY OF HIS CAPTURE. MAROONED HIMSELF ON ISLET. (Received 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, May 29. The "Daily Chronicle's" correspondent gives details of the arrest of the man put ashore from a German submarine, and now in the Tower of London awaiting court-martial. Two fishermen on April 13 near the cliffs of Moher, County Clare, noticed a man on a barren islet waving a handkerchief violently. They rowed him ashore. He said that his name was O'Brien, and that he was the survivor of a torpedoed ship. After he had been provided with food and clothing the authorities arrested him- The police found the torpedoing story true. The man had a good deal of English silver in his pockets. Moreover, a collapsible boat was found wrecked near the cliffs of Moher. The man, evidently a spy. landed on the islet at night in mistake for the mainland. He endeavoured to destroy the boat, and then discovered at daylight that he had marooned himself. (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 128, 30 May 1918, Page 5
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