DEFENCE DEPARTMENT ALERT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16239, 24 November 1914, Page 5

DEFENCE DEPARTMENT ALERT.

TWO MEN ARRESTED,

(Peb United Pbess Association.)

AUCKLAND, November 23. Two men bearing names suggestive of Germany were yesterday made prisoners of war at Auckland at the instance of the Defence authorities. One of them —Heinrich W. M. Duerkop, a native of Prussian Poland, and a member of the firm of Duerkop and Mackay, commercial agents, of Swanson street—was spending his week-end at Brown's Bay, beyond Takapuna, when Detective-sergeant Mollis and Detectives Issel and Keane, who were in ihe vicinity and considered that Duerkop's \novements were suspicious, arrested him and sent him to the fort for military detention. Duerkop had been under surveillance in the ordinary way since the outbreak of war.

Later in the day Detective-sergeant Hollis and Detective Cullen visited the Grand Hotel and there arrested Albert Herman, a German tourist, who had been on a tour of British oversea possessions and was in Auckland at the timo war was declared, and was consequently detained and put under surveillance. The arrest was made on instructions from the Defence Department, there being reason to suspect that Herman had not kept his conditions of parole in the matter of refraining from trying to make outside communication with friends.

Both prisoners are highly educated men.