LEAVING BRAZIL
HUNDREDS OF AXIS DIPLOMATS RIO DE JANEIRO, May 7. Upward of 400 German and Italian diplomats are departing homewards to-day, many reluctantly. According to a Brazilian official, Signor Ugo Sola, the Italian Ambassador, unsuccessfully appealed to the authorities to intern him. Two hundred Axis nationals have been accused of subversive activities. The postal authorities seized thousands of letters from Europe aboard a Portuguese ship, the Serpapinto, presumably intended for. clandestine delivery to innumerable American destinations. The letters, which were unstamped, were from. Axis and Axisoccupied countries. Three seamen on the Serpapinto who were arrested admitted that the 15,000 United States dollars taken from them had been supplied by an Axis agent to buy platinum. The Serpapinto was scheduled to sail for Lisbon to-day with 150 German and Italian diplomats.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24911, 9 May 1942, Page 5
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