AUTOMATIC SPIES.
NEW GERMAN INVENTION. ATTACHMENT TO TELEPHONES. Sun. BERLIN, Jan. 5. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says automatic spies are Germany's latest invention. These are attached to the Post Office telephone installation to meet the demands of the Foreign Office, the Ministry of the Interior and the police department. The invention provides a complete system for listening in to telephone conversations between journalists, diplomats, politicians, and persons suspected of crime, and for the taking of a shorthand note, for example, of a despatch being telephoned. to a foreign newspaper.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19838, 7 January 1928, Page 9
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