GERMAN SPIES EXECUTED
PRE-INVASION PREPARATIONS. [by cable—press assn.—copyright.] LONDON, December 10. The Home Office announced that two German spies were executed in Bentonville Prison to-day. Their/ na&ies were Jose Waldberg, who was Srn In Germany in 1916; andl Mainz Karl Meier, a Dutch subject, boin a Coblenz, in 1916, he being of Gexm They were arrested soon after they arrived surreptitiously in England. They were in possession of a wireless 'transmitting set and had considerable sums of money.. They had been made to believe that they . would sqpn be relieved of their duties by a German invasion of Britain. They were convicted of espionage at the Central Criminal Court on November 26. ’ , . This is the first anouncement of the execution of enemy agents in Britain during the war.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 11 December 1940, Page 7
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