SPY SCARE.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18888, 31 December 1926, Page 15

SPY SCARE.

jgE STRANDERS CASE. WHO IS DR. WEBER? KG GERMAN ESPIONAGE SCHEME ALLEGED. tf tiTLI ?->*■ ASSOC! ATI*:;- -(.OI'VP.IGnT.. ptfTUZ-lAX »■■"■' ■"•'■ I 'AEI.i: ASSOCIATION.I (Bttfivcd December 30th. 0.15 p.m.'. LONDON. December 30. Another aita-k M' spy mania ;.. threatened ■■<'- » result of the arrest nf ftttnAtn, It is asserted that a network »f tpj'ing '" , '' r:l «ee an.l Britain on fcrtalf of G.rmnny lias been discovered, at the head of which is Dr. ffeber, a man of many names and high jjliinrr.ents who gives the impression ef b*ing a rich idler, but who is really Imost active man. •flw I'arLs cone>poi.doin of the 'Daily jipress" says Dr. Weber made two trip* to England this year, visiting fcofldon, Newcastle, and Portsmouth. A euiseidence is that each visit marked tie disappearance of documents relatjjg to national defence. In one ease It *»• announced that the documents V ere fourid again, but this was only »{tff photographs of the papers had rejeitfd Berlin. Tie Fans correspondent of the Kpjily Chronicle" reports that the psliware searching for a pretty blonde {(jjojeft a note in a hotel after Strandgn' departure, in which she wrote: "I \fit yo u - —Your Giuette." Stranders' advocate stresses the fact git there is no proof that he c-oi'n-lOlleated anything of a really secret Dltore. It is revealed that Scotland f«d co-operated with the French police ipj watched the air ports in ease gtianders arrived by aeroplane. Ho Mrred in the Royal Flyinrj Corps, and JiUr was attached to the Inter-AUicd Jtnoiiiiutical Commission in Germany.

NOTED INDUSTRIALISTS TO TESTIFY.

(ICTTMLIAX AXD X.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION 1 "'(lceeivrd December 30th, S.lo p.m.)

PARIS, December 29. Kot«d industrialists are expected to \$ called in defence of Stranders, who ffrni that he is the victim of vengeUM in connexion with his private rfiiri. He represented a French airsift firm and frequently made jourUft from France to Germany.

TJw police contend that the mysteriMH "Dr. Weber" with whom Strandm corresponded, was merely a pseujtarm for the head of the German l/f organisation. Stranders' arrest followed the discovirjr.of a pocket-book containing notes tithe latest French aeroplane engines. iIN ALLEGED CONFESSION. fcMIALIAJt AXD 1.1. ' CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (leteived December 30th, 8.13 p.m.) T"' LONDON, December 29. f T!w "Evening News" ?iays that feto'den has admitted that he received WO gold marks for information supstA to 'Germany on a list of qucsfitM. which he learned and destroyed. (Vivian Stranders, alleged to be a fesier British officer, wns arrested #B tearing Paris for Germany, and rietwd of espionage. Though it octsmd on December 21st, the arrest was announced after enquiries by the ftwch counter-espionage service, who 4atc that Dr. Wel>er. head of the GcrMa secret service in France, paid Btandera -1500 gold marks for an Pr in a detailed questionnaire resg' array, aviation, tank, and ne gun improvements.] :p ■- _„_