GERMAN SPY SHOT
Dropped By Plane In England;; Captured By Home Guard
FULLY EQUIPPED FOR HIS WORK
Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 15.
A German aeroplane dropped a spy by parachute in the Home Counties, but the Home Guard captured him 12 hours later. The Wat Office states that the man was Josef Jakobs, a secret service agent of German nationality born in Luxembourg on Jtne 30, 1898. He was executed at the Tower of London this morning.
It is understood Jakobs was a noncommissioned officer in the German army and was attached to the meteorological service. He was clad in civilian clothes when dropped from the aeroplane, and was fully equipped for espionage. He had a wireless transmitting and receiving set. a large sum in English money, and an emergency food ration. He | also carried a small hand spade for burying his parachute.
After his conviction Jakobs was shot. An interpreter was placed at his disposal for the purposes of his defence.
This is the first announcement of a spy having been e.xecutedjsy shooting since the outbreak "of war. Other?, being civilians, were hanged.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 7
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