U.S.A. NAVY CATCH

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1941, Page 5

U.S.A. NAVY CATCH

NAZIS IN GREENLAND Radio Station Eliminated [Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.J (Received October 12, 11.0 p.m.). WASHINGTON, October 11. The United States Navy captured and disposed of a German Arctic outpost operating a radio station in Greenland. The Navy is bringing 20 prisoners, including an agent of the Gestapo, and a group of Norwegian Quislings, to an American port, according to an announcement by the State Department. This is the first reported activity bv the American armed forces in the United States protected Danish Island. The announcement said that_a patrol ship intercepted and inspected a small Norwegian steamer, and an examintion of her personnel revealed that the vessel had been despatched to Greenland by Nazi authorities in Norway to establish a radio station, from which could be sent to tne German authorities weather reports and other military information. A search, of the Greenland coast revealed a radio station manned bv a Gestapo agent, and two other Norwegians, ’ who previously disembarked from’ the Norwegian vessel

DUKE AND DUCHESS OF WINDSOR. (Rec. 9.15.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. A crowd of five thousand cheered the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at Baltimore, as they arrived on a visit to the Duchess’s uncle and aunt. The Russian War Relief Organisation announced that equipment for ten complete operating rooms had been shipped to Russia.