GERMAN SPY SYSTEM.
USE OF A WIRELESS PLANT, REiUAR KA RLE A! JJ'GATIONS. LON'DOX, July 4. The New York Journal slates that Count iJernsduVit' is using the Sayville wireless station as an adjunct to the spy system. The Journal has been collecting messages for months and has handed the authorities copies. Every line was transmitted and received by the Sayville station during June, proving that Count Berndorff has persistently fooled the United States Government and censors.
Count Bernsdorff furnished the United States with a false translation of the code used.
Another prolific way of sending coded messages was ostensible requests for repeats containing masses of figures with secret meanings. These pretended repeats were not reported to the United States Government. [lt was reported on Saturday that the United States Government intended to close the Sayville wireless station, as it was believed that it was being used to supply German submarines with information respecting the sailings of English-and French transAtlantic shipping,]
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Greymouth Evening Star, 5 July 1915, Page 5
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