AMERICAN CAPTURE.
NAZI ARCTIC OUTPOST. WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. The United States navy has captured and disposed of a German Arctic outpost operating a radio station in Greenland and is bringing 20 prisoners. including an agent of the Gestapo and a group of Norwegian quislings, to an American port, according to an announcement bv the State Department. This is the first reported activity by American armed forces in the United States-protected Danish island. The announcement said a patrol ship intercepted and inspected a small Norwegian steamer. Examination of the personnel revealed that the vessel had been dispatched to Greenland by tiie Nazi authorities in Norway to establish a radio station from which to send to tho German authorities’ weather reports and other military information. A search of the Greenland coast revealed a radio station maimed by a Gestapo agent and two other Norwegians who had previously disembarked from the Norwegian vessel.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 4
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150AMERICAN CAPTURE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 267, 13 October 1941, Page 4
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