GERMANS LISTEN-IN.
POST OFFICE. AS TOOL. LONDON. Sept. 11. The Daily News attention to. the fact that the Post Office is unsuspectingly helping Britain’s Continental trade rivals by granting facilities to favoured indviduals and firms to use British wireless stations for rapid transmission to Germany and Holland of market quotations and other commercial and monetary intelligence, whereas in the absence of regular wireless services British business neople are unable to obtain similar information from Germany and Holland. The Daily Mail states that this has been continuing for a long time, facilitating the manipulation of the London foreign exchange market. The newspaper hints that the Post Office is unwittingly granting facilities to persons suspected of espionage on behalf. of Germany, and also for the dissemination in‘Germany of propaganda. It- suggests that the German Government, financially or otherwise, is interested in the wireless news service from Britain, and that the wireless servicer, to Britain from France, Switzerland, and Spain are being secretly tapped on behalf of Germany.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 27 September 1924, Page 15
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