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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2487, 14 June 1915, Page 5

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STARTLING CONFESSIONS OP A SPY EX-MEMBER OF HOUSE OF COMMONS (R«c. Jama 13-14, midnight.); London, Juno 12. The newspapers are giving prominence to tho confessions to New York • papers of one Ignatius fribick Lincoln, who was a member of the British House of Commons, for Darlington, in 1910. Tribich is tho son of a Hungarian-Jew-ish shipowner, and acted as a Presbyterian missionary, subsequently being ordained to the Church of England in 1903. Ho became a naturalised Englishman in 1909, when he took tho name of Lincoln. He assisted in electioneering campaigns as _an anti-tariff reformer, who took parties of working men to Germany in order to gain experience of life, under his protection. Ho was not again elected to Parliament, and became bankrupt. Censor at the War omoe. He was then employed as Hungarian censor at the War Office. At the outbreak of war ho conceived an abhorrence of England owing to alleged cruelty to aliens, and determined to act as a German spy. He was able to give Austria and Germany important information owing to his influence with highly-placed friends in England, but he wished to bring off a coup, and fruitlessly offered his services to Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Churchill. A Lure That Failed.' : Finally, by bringing useful informer tion from Rotterdam, which he obtained from a German Consul, he won the confidence of the British Secret Service, and propounded a scheme for luring part of the British Fleet to a certain bay where the Germans were within easy striking distance, but tho Secret Service authorities refused to disclose the whereabouts of the British Fleet to anyone. Tribich describes the codes by which tho German spies transmitted messages to Germany, giving particulars of the movements of the Fleet. Finally the Secret Service discovered the fraud, and Lincoln lied to America.