TRAITOR'S GRIM END.
AUSTRIAN ARMY SCANDAL.
SELLS SECRETS TO RUSSIA.
By TeleEraDh—Preß» Association—Copyright
(liec; Hay 30, IL2O p.m.)
Vienna, May 30,
Colonel Redl, an aelfvo officer of tlio General Stall, committed suicide when on the point of arrest on charges of immorality and selling official secrets to a foreign Power. Hedl had been heavily blackmailed. Tlio scandal in connection with Colonel Redl's suicide is one of tho worst in tho history of the army. Jiedl was implicitly trusted in connection with measures against spies. When an investigation was made it was proved that he had been selling to Russia, for the past fourteen years, many military secrets. In consequenoe of this, the Minister for War summoned him to Vienna. Four officers accompanied Colonel Redl to a room, and said they would return in tho morning and arrest him. They then left a loaded revolver on a table with a book of instructions hoiv to uso it. ' ■ Tho officers then mounted guard outside the room until a shot was heard.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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169TRAITOR'S GRIM END. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1764, 31 May 1913, Page 5
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