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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5357, 15 February 1916, Page 2

An Auckland soldier, who was one of the men who took part in the historic landing on April 25th. and left the peninsula at the beguiling of October, returning on-the Willoohra, rotated some ihteresting stories about Gornyin spies. One thing that stood out in his mind was the absolute bravely and disregard of death of some of them. If they could knock out one of our higher officers they were quite ready to die. One German spy, in the uniform of a British major, by some means got into a trench ludd by an Esm'x regiment. He passed the order, officers to the left, men to the right, and tin l order was olieyed. Tin' Ger. man then drew his revolver and shot down four of the officers while standing in tin- trench, and was immediately rushed and buyonetted by a dozen men. “There is no rumour about that story,” added the soldier. “It is quite true.”