ENEMY PLAN FOILED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19851, 23 January 1928, Page 9

ENEMY PLAN FOILED.

ATTACK ON INDIAN PORTS. WAR INCIDENT DISCLOSED. A. and N.Z. CALCUTTA. Jan. 20. A story how, during the war, Calcutta and Rangoon were saved from an attack by German warships has been related as follows by a former high official in the Indian Secret Service: — In the autumn of 1915 10 enemy warships were interned in Sabang, a small, port in North Sumatra, near the Nicobar Islands. Information was received that the < German naval headquarters had formulated a plan under which a German warship would sail from a port on the western coast of the United States and take with it supplies of anti-British propaganda to a base ia Java. From there the warship was to proceed to Sabang' to release the interned - vessels,' when they would make a concerted attack , On Calcutta and Rangoon. Organised revolutionary outbreaks which took place in India and Burma were obviously a result of the enemy propaganda in preparation for a possible landing. The meagre British nival force was hurriedly summoned, and it patrolled the Bay of Bengal. This was in Christmas week, when the attack was expected to materialise. The Far Eastern shipping routes were watched and the German warship from America never reached Sabang.