SAVED FROM ATTACK
CALCUTTA AND RANGOON GERMAN PLAN REVEALED (United Press Association.—Copyright^ (Received 21at January, noon.) ■. CALCUTTA, 20th January. The story of how during the war Calcutta and Rangoon were saved from an attack of German warships is related by a former liigh official in the Indian Secret Service. In the autumn of 1915 ten enemy ivarships were interned in Sabang, a small port of North Sumatra, near the Nicobar Islands. Information was received that the German naval headquarters had formulated a plan that a German warship should said from a port in Western. United States and take supplies to' an antiBritish propaganda base in.'Java, and thence proceed to Sabang to release 1 thu interned vessels and make a concerted attack on Calcutta and Ban* goon. The organised revolutionary outbreaks which took place in India and Burma were obviously, part of the enemy propaganda in preparation for a, possible landing. A meagre British naval force was hurriedly summoned and patrolled the Bay of Bengal in Christmas week when the attack was expected to materialise. The Far East* crn routes were watched, and the Get* man warship from America never read)* ed Sabang.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 17, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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192SAVED FROM ATTACK Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 17, 21 January 1928, Page 9
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