THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2647, 18 December 1915, Page 6

THIEVES IN HIGH PLACES

GERMAN NAVAL ATTACHE AT

WASHINGTON

STEALS IMPORTANT STATE

DOCUMENT

. .Bi Telegraph—Press 'Association—Copyrfglrt t] Washington Decomber 16. 1< Captain Boy-Ed,..the.. Gorman Naval I , Attache, at Washington; .was .discovered 1 • before'his departure jto be nv possession j< , -jf a secret report, qn.the.United States t. -Wavy, intended for tho solo perusal of ti President Wilson'and the Cabinet. T The theft) was unearthed by. the Brit- d isli secret service. •' : I '' -tl '[Captain,Boy-Ed, the ?.G|erman Naval ii Attache, and. Captain von Pnpen,' the w Attache at tho. German Em- -o: bassy at Washington, havo played a o j ■ loading, part in organising pro-German ti interference . with .American industry, ft so as to, hamper tho-supply of war ma- o : terials to' the. Allies. In consequence ti of the vigorous .protests of the United It States, .the German Emperor a few days n ago personally; recalled both of the offi- tl ■: Tafrs.j ; .., .. j< ' SPIES IN FRANCE ' J "■■■■ • d AN OFFICIAL RETURN tl ■, ti ! Paris,: December 16. n OfEeial.—During the war, 1125 per- n sons have been arrested in France on o. charges of espionage within the mili- w tary zone.' 'Fifty-five, wero" executed, it Sevea hundred-and , thirty-fiyo were or- -h rested behind the military zone,- and a nine of them executed. -t] P : ' " '' B