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HOW INDIA WAS SAVED HIGH OFFICIAL'S STORY lEieo. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January 21, W a.m.) DELHI, Jan. 20. The story of how during the war Calcutta and Rangoon were sa\ cd from attack by Gorman warships is related by a former high official of the Indian Secret Service, in the autumn of 191;, 10 enemy warships were interned in Sabang, a small port north ol Sumatra, near the Nicobar Islands. information was received that German naval headquarters had formulated a plan that a German warship should sail from a port. on the. West Coast of the Dili ted Slates, to lake supplies to the anti-British propoganda. base at Java, and theme proceed to Saining to release the interned ves sel.s and make a concerted attack on Calcutta and Itangoon, Organised revolutionary nu(breaks look place in India and Burma, obviously part of the enemy propaganda, and preparation for a, possible lauding. Tho meagre British naval force was hurriedly summoned and patrolled the Bay of Bengal during Christmas week, when the attack was expected lo materialise. The Far Eastern routes were watched, but the German warship from America never reached Sabang.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16553, 21 January 1928, Page 5
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