FASCINATED BY A SPY WOMAN

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 19, 17 October 1917, Page 5

FASCINATED BY A SPY WOMAN

INFATUATED BRITISH OFFICER

HOW THE TANKS WERE BETRAYED

(Kec, October lli, 8 p.m.) Paris, October 15. Mdlle. Alatahari, tho beautiful Dutch dancer, was shot this morning for espionage. She betrayed the existence of the British "tanks" to Germany before the Battle of the Somme. While fulfilling a dancing engagement in Paris she fascinated an English officer who was wearing the dragon badge of the Tanks .Corps. Tho two were frequently seen together in cafes during Hay of 11)16. She applied for a permit to visit a certain port, stating that her fiances, a British officer, had been wonnded, and she wished to marry him before he died. She arrived

; at the port simultaneously with tho arri- ' val of the first consignment of the tanks ; from England, and stayed a week, liav- , ing tiio free run of the port. A month later she returned to Paris ;uul obtained a passport for San Sebastian iu Spain. She was seen in the . company of a suspected German agent. ■ During the Somme offensive the tanks : were opposed by a new German gun that j had been expressly made for service | against them. German prisoners adI mi t ted that the tanks had been betrayed, i —United Service. I A BEGISTERED SPY. ! (l!ec. October 18, S p.m.) ; Paris, October 15. i At the trial of Mdlle. Jfatahari, the i evidence revealed the fact that tho ac- ' cused had been duly registered under a ' v.t.mbov in Carman spy lists. Sho \ rdraitled havii'.s received largo sums of I mo;:oy iC year for information I she had to leading German j spies—"The Times." ! FIG&'iING IN THE BALKANS ' LOCAL ACTIONS ON BRITISH AND I'TIVLIAN FRONTS. ; London, October 15. ; A Brill*.;. official report, from Salonika i troops successfully raid- ! >■.*! ii-jutb-west of Seres. Our ! castifciiits light. Our aeroplanes a J-iiiap and u train at Cestovo, on the Iteiria front. An Italian official report states:—We completely >;Dke an attack near J.okavac, preces«3. by a lavish bombardment between ELettdar and the sea.—Atis.-In.Z. ! Cabie Assn.-Heuter.' j (Bee. October 10, 8 p.m.)

London, October 15. A Preucli Eastern communique states: —"A successful raid was made by the British troops at Hamondos, wast of Seres."—Aus.-N.Z. Cubic A«n.-Reuter.