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Still, the fact that it had been circulated was general knowledge and thus strengthened the Provost Marshal’s intention.
The Rev., of course, denies any wrongdoing and even refutes to have revealed to the
English the hiding place of the German steamship “Mekong”, as he is accused of.
My friend from New Guinea, who related all of the above to me, also told me a lot about the war events in that colony. In April 1914, the long-time governor of New Guinea, Holms, stepped down and in recognition of the auspicious discoveries of gold and other minerals, Resources Minister [Bergrat?] Haber was elected governor. When war broke out, he [Haber] happened to be on an expedition into the gold fields and absent from the government house in Rabaul, and the deputy governor, Privy Councillor [Geheimrat?] Schlettwein, thought it prudent to move the government to the mountains near Herbertshöhe, where the radio tower was. Herbertshöhe is the old seat of government, situated across from Rabaul on the opposite side of Blanche Bay, in New Pomerania. Ten days after war broke out,