SPIES IN GREAT BRITAIN.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2225, 11 August 1914, Page 5

SPIES IN GREAT BRITAIN.

SUSPECT SHOT BEAD.

CHASE AT TYNE BRIDGE. London, August 8. , A patrol challenged a foreigner on Tyne Bridge. The man endeavoured to escape, rushed down the steps to the river, and jumped into a boat. The patrol in another boat chased him,, and as he decliued to stop they fired; . The n.an expired, but threw his attache caso into the river. Search tor Germans in Tyne and Toes continues, and the Germans' tolephoncs havo been disconnected. Friedlich, a singer, and the pastor of the German Seamen's Mission, have been remanded at South Shields, charged with espionage. Another German, pastor'at Sunderland has been detained. The men arrested at the Euston Boad hotel havo beea released. Both wero Irishmen, buyers of rifles for a Dublin firm. FOREIGNERS BUY FIREARMS. MANY SEIZURES IN LONDON. -; London, August..9.., There is i.'vidence of widespread" buyins; of firearms and cxploo.'-is.'by;."Ger-mans in London. Many j.il'es-.and ro: volvers have already been seized;'— DoV tectives day and night continue a sys-' teaatic search. There hava been numerous more arrests. ' I . Ali the rublio buildings arA Strongly guarded. The General Post suffice -has been surrounded by bomb-proof wirenetting, and troops .-.re stationed inside. - , It is understood that n number of letters.intended for Berlin havs bKS.inte^ v cepted.