SCHEME TO RAID PACIFIC COMMERCE.
PLOT DISCOVERED BY BRITISH WARSHIP. PERUVIAN NAVAL OFFICERS IMPLICATED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 9, 12.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 8. The Germans sought to involve officers and men of the Peruvian Navy in plots to raid Allied commerce in the Pacific Ocean. British warships seized a German agent on the high seas in January, and discovered that Peruvian officers were preparing to utilise two submarines to raid commerce. . The German agent had extensively bribed Peruvians, and had sought to establish a series of submarine bases along the Peruvian coast. The information was handed over to the Government of Peru, and the culprits were arrested. Thereafter the United States was informed.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 960, 9 March 1917, Page 11
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117SCHEME TO RAID PACIFIC COMMERCE. Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 960, 9 March 1917, Page 11
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