BRITAIN EXECUTES TWO SPIES
USED RADIO TRANSMITTERS j fU.P.A.-By Elet-I.fi. I’eiegraDh-CoDyrtght] LONDON, 10th December. It has been announced by the Home Office that two enemy agents acting on behalf of Germany have been executed. They were arrested soon after their arrival in this country. One was a German and the other a ' Dutch-born subject. They managed to j come to Britain by surreptitious meth- ■ ods. Both were in possession of wire- ! less receiving and transmission sets and had on them considerable sums of j money. Their instructions were to j pose as refugees and move about among j the people, securing information. They ; | were given to understand that they would shortly be relieved by German , invading forces.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 11 December 1940, Page 2
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