ALERT TAXI-DRIVER
ESI’K >NAGE REVEALED JIBUTI. Feb. 23. A taxi-driver's alertness lias revealed an extensive Italian espionage organisation. An Italian contractor was going to the Italian Consulate by taxi, when the driver noticed that he was carrying a box of papers. He pretended to be short of petrol, and stopped near the barracks. The Italian threatened him with a revolver, but an officer came out and arrested the Italian, whose papers contained photographs and plans of the military equipment at the new aerodrome. Since then seven arrests have been made.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19882, 8 March 1939, Page 11
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90ALERT TAXI-DRIVER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19882, 8 March 1939, Page 11
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