ARRESTED AS SPY
Groom In Ambassador’s
Service
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright
COPENHAGEN, January 18.
A boy named Putra, employed as a groom by the United States Minister to Finland (Mr F. A. Scoenfieid) has been arrested as a Russian spy. In the Minister's absence, Putra hoisted the American flag over the villa, which the Russians bombed during a raid. The flag had not been hoisted previously since the outbreak of the war.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21557, 20 January 1940, Page 9
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