PIRATE TOLL ON BRITISH SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2509, 9 July 1915, Page 5

PIRATE TOLL ON BRITISH SHIPPING

GOVERNMENT WATCHING SUPPLY OF LIVE STOCK), By Telegraph—Press AsEooiation—Oopyrk'Jit (Rec. July 8, 3.30 p.m.) . "• London, July 8. 11l the House of Lords, Lord Selborne (President of the Board of Agriculture) , iii moving, the second reading dr tBo Maintenance, of Live Stock Bill, said it was of the utmost importance for- tho Government to Have power to preserve tlie live stock of the United Kingdom. German submarines 7 were taking steady till of the shipping; and the longer the war continued the more submarines would probably be engaged. It seemed likely that tho Ger-' man Admiralty was putting its whole ship-building strength into construct-, ing submarines, and it would not be the enemy's fault if he failed to deal a mortal blow to our'carrying trade. GIGANTIC SPY SCHEME SCOTCHED CAREER OF A RUSSIAN TRAITOR. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright ("Times" aud Sydney "Si|n" Services.) (Rec. July 8, 6 p.m.) London, July 7. The hanging of Colonel Mjasoedoff revealed a' German plot to take Warsaw by spying and treachery. Mjasoedoff, when the gendarmerie were employed' oil a frontier station' at Wirballen, close to tho Kaiser's shooting-box, was a frequent. guest at the Kaiser's private table. Having charge of the passports, Mjasoedoff enabled swarms of Germans to penetrate Russia. • An extensive contraband trade was discovered, and' Mjasoedoff was dismissed. He went to a famous German watering place, and, thanks to a female intrigue, emerged with the rank of colonel, and was appointed interpreter on the staff of the Russian Tenth Army operating against East Prussia, a:i appointment giving him access to the most confidential information. A bridge was burned at a. critical moment on the Vistula, and his explanation clid not fit the facts; aviators ascended without proper ' instructions.' Finally, the Cossacks caught two men taking ..German copies of Russian orders one day v Hie same day, the Russians wero celebrating a feast, and it was fairly certain that tho staff officers and corps commanders would . foregather. Several had assembled, when a German officer appeared at the door, saying: "Gentlemen, you are my prisoners." . _ ' Tho alarm was given, and one general escaped in his night clothes. The coup failed. It was intended to capture the senior officers, surround the Tenth Army by a lightning dash, and then rush Warsaw. MjasoecLoff was'arrested and confronted with the evidence of a'confessor ; an aviator who carried the messages, and ! his machine, were seized; other arrests followed, stretching hack to Petrograd, and tho gigantic system of espionago was scotched. GAUCHT SIGNALLING FROM AN INTERNED STEAMER. Rome, July 7. Tho captain and engineer of the German steamer Lemos, which is interned at Venice, hare been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for syping and night-signalling information to tho Austrian Fleet. - • 1 AN ATROCIOUS CRIME FATHER AND DAUGHTER BURNT ALIVE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. July 8, 9.20 p.m.) i London, July 8. Router's Paris correspondent states that shots wore recently fired on a Gorman patrol in the streets of Peronno, and the Germans insisted that tbey cam© from a house occupied, by a bailiff called Derbecq. The latter pointed out the marks of the bullets and proved that ho was not guilty. The Germans gave no heed to the explanation, but 1 locked up Derbecq and his daughter, sprayed their house with potto! and net firs to it, Both were Jiuxbm ajfee» ■. • - *> ,