A PECULIAR INCIDENT.
SUPPOSED GERMAN SPIES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —I'RESS ASSOCIATION.J
CUBtSTCHiiBCH, Tuesday, A cokrksi'ON'dknt of the Christchurch Press, who vouched for the correctness of the story, states that two friends of his, a lady and gentleman, recently got into a train "at Culverden, on the way to Christchurch, and that two foreign-looking gentlemen were the only other occupants of the carriage. The lady and gentleman, who are German scholars, heard their fel-low-travellers say to each other in German, "Oh, no, they won't understand us.' Then they produced maps and plans, became engrossed in them, making audible remarks. The maps evidently referred more particularly to that part of the coast where the Waiau River flows into the sea. The men were explaining to each other how a large body of troops could be landed in safety, and with the utmost privacy, how a troopship could lie out of sight of land during the day, and run in and laud whatever was necessary at night. It is suggested that the men were German spies.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11953, 30 April 1902, Page 5
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