THE SPY ROUND-UP IN GREAT BRITAIN'

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6

THE SPY ROUND-UP IN GREAT BRITAIN'

A SEVEN YEARS' SENTENCE

•' London,- November 13. .Karl 'Ernst, charged with being a spy, was-found guilty and sentenced'to seven years' imprisonment:

' Ernst-was a hairdresser, of Caledonlau.Road, not far from the.'.Smithfield Meat. ..Market:-. -Immediately,• after, arrest he' petitioned for his.'release, on tho ■ground that.'he was a-'British' subject, and; concluded, by saying that' "if I am .sent to Germany I> shall be' arrested as an English spy.; Thus it,'will be. a case of out of'thb: frying-pan into the fire." Inquiries confirmed his statement' that he was a. British subject .under surveil-■*®?3_^ro®."Octpber,--la'st.-l,; He" was employe! by- a/mail named' Steinbaeur, who has case during tlie last.four.years. Accused's shop was kept under:obser.irati6n, and-it was -ttot-rho.. received .i-a. number' of letters;fromiPoT«dam,' which he distrib--Utcd; to German ,'Tspies \ at Chatham, bheerness;-*,and''.othersplaces..-. .-At the. H? > postal officials gavo evidence that many - --letter's--"'opened'/.'cohtairied remittances of .from fiva'tQ'fifteen .pounds for various 'spies.' - . r .. ; 'aIijEGED:,.LAXITY; V OP.; THE"" GOV-' ; : KIINMENT. . ( . , r London, November 13. Mi\. ,JVI Kenm, .Home' "Secretary, , realleged'laxity of -hjs ;policy . in. connection with-spies,, was ■throu<»liout guided% military:.advice..: ■'-• '

SUSP-IGIOUS LIGHTS ON YORK- , SHIRE COAST

■: -London, November 13 ' 1 i. newspapers: Riv« remarkable stor'!s' r ° ' stalling'. along' the,. York-, shtr.e ccSst: V;Tliere';.!have. been many ••• relating there-to,-aiid also ;to espionage.V FURTHER RAIDS IN MELBOURNE The"'Defence 'authorities 'raided seve™ more business plgces,: including the < 9 ™.ie Norddeutscher Lloyd. 'Mr. Hughes, Federal .'Attorney-General, states that as the result, of further investigations 'of 'papers .recently 'obtain-" <jd"addifcio!ial 'evidence of an imp<jrtant character, has. been made available. ■ ■ ' ; THE FATE OF CARL LODY ■; : SPY'S' LETTER TO A FRIEND.. ' • (Rec. November 15, 3.30' p.m.) ' ■ . . Washington, November 13. . Carl Lody (the German spy "who was shot in the Tower), writing to a friend 3n Omaha froni Lhn Tower .of ■ London, stated that he was prepared to make a c ean .breast of the whole business, .but % lE , us t''protect' his friends in the > * and a , void the humiliation ot those near and dear to him. In the ■■.course.-of. his letter lie said: "You'may have an opportunity to say 'a word to some of those in whom I still feel an interest. Ask them to judge' me hot' harshly. hen they hear of me again, doubtless by body will have been placed in-concrete beneath this old Tower or my bones made a pyre, but I shall have ■served my country. May be some historian will record' me amongst some of the despised class of'war victims."

After referring to the visit of his spiritual adviser, he adds: "Doubtless my demise will'bo-heralded as that of a spy, but I have the spiritual consolation iliac, others have suffered, and I must accept the award of Fate." Mr. W. J. Bryan (United States Secretary of State) is investigating a statement by Charles Inglis, of Chicago, regarding how his passport came into Lady's possession. The passport was submitted to the German Foreign Office for endorsement, and disappeared. The Foreign Office declared that it. was unable to trace it, and Inglis was obliged to.;secure another. It" is believed that *he original was handed to Lody, '■