ALLEGED SPYING.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18890, 4 January 1927, Page 9

ALLEGED SPYING.

STRANDEBS EXAMINED. (BT CABU—PRESS ASSOCtATW*—COJTBIOHT ) iSrum "Son" Slavics.) PARIS, January 2. Stranders, examined by a Magistrate, admitted sending Dr. Weber information about French aeroplanes, engines, and caterpillar wheels for motors, but said that it was merely of a commercial character. A director of the Parisian Aviation Company gave evidence that Stranders never asked for details of military machines. CASE IN GERMANY.

(Stososy "Stra" Swm«.) BERLIN, January 2. Von Luar, for many years a trusted employee of Krupp's locomotive department, was arrested on a charge of espionage on behalf of France. It is alleged he attempted suicide while awaiting examination. GERMAN PRESS SCEPTICAL. GUJBTIUI.UN JXD N.Z. CABI.S ASSOCIATION.) BERLIN, December 31. The newspapers refuse to believe the French allegation of » vast network of German espionage. They regard it as highly improbable that Stranders was engsg-. Ed in such work, and state that aftej. his association with the Inter-Allied > Aeronautical Control Commission h»settled in Berlin and acted as agent for various foreign aeroplane firms. • The "Lokal Ansseiger" ihsinuates" that the whole .affair has vamped up by the French. ■ '