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ON INTERNED GERMAN LINER TWO OFFICERS ARRESTED — v (Received November 19, 8.4© a.m.) , T , . BATAVIA, 18th November. Commander Lubcke, and the wireless operator, M. Voltz, of the warship Preussen, which is interned at Sabang Bay, have been arrested on a charge of violating Dutch neutrality Although the wireless installation was dismantled, the authorities discovered secret antennae and an erecting mast. [There is a village named Sabang in the Malay Peninsula, north of Malacca ; the name in the cablegram may be a mutilation of Samarang, "in Java. Preussen is the name of a German battleship, but the vessel referred to is the Hamburg-American liner Preussen, of 7997 tons.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 7
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110SECRET WIRELESS FOUND Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 7
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