JAPANESE SPIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7958, 8 February 1906, Page 5

JAPANESE SPIES.

OBTAIN PL.iNS OP SYDNEY HARBOUR. A STARTLING DISCOVERY. Received February 8, 12.2 a.a. SYDNEY, February 7. Mr Ewing, Vice-President of the Executive Council, which attends to matters appertaining to defence, was asked, to-day, whether he had any official knowledge of the seizure of the planß of Sydney Harbour and of the fortifications, which have been found in the possession of two foreigners at Thursday Island. Mr Ewing stated he had not ye'; received any official information, though he would not say the matter was not known to him. According to the information received by a prominent citizen in Sydney, from Thursday Inland, - a rather startling discovery was made by the, officials there, in quite an accidental way. In the last trio of the steamer Australian two Japanese passengers who passed as merchants, missed the boat when the voyage was resumed, their luggage being left aboard. They wired to have their luggage put ashore at Darwin, and that they would follow it by the next boat. Toe luggage, however, was put ashore at Uoode Island, where the Customs officials discovered amongst the so-called merchants' effects complete plans of Sydney Harbour and fortifications.