A TRAITOR TO FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 56, 29 November 1917, Page 5

A TRAITOR TO FRANCE

EX-MINISTER TO STAND HIS TRIAL ALLEGED INFORMER TO THE ENEMY IMPORTANT PLANS GIVEN AWAY Paris, November 27. The Chamber of the Paris Commune has decided to seud M. ifalvy, late Minister for the Interior, to trial. It is unofficially alleged that while he was Minister of tho interior ho informed the enemy of all tho current military and diplomatic projects, especially of the attack on tho Cheiain des Dames, and that he also encouraged mutiny in the Army.—lteuter. SPY SENSATION IN ITALY EX-DEPUTY ARRESTED. Rome, November 27. Excitement was caused over tho arrest of signer Cavalani (an ox-member of tho Chamber of Deputies), nlso of a woman, self-styled "Jlarctiesa lticca," on charges of espionage. Documents of a t serious nature wcro seized at Ricca's 'residence, including many from M. Caillaux and his wife, who were intimate with the prisoners.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A HOTBED oTeSPIONAGE AND INCENDIARISM SWITZERLAND SIMMERING WITH TROUBLE. . ■ Paris, November 27. The "Matin's" Zurich correspondent writes: —German Switzerland is becoming a hotbed of espionage and incendiarism. Several bomb plots have been discovered. One aimed at tho wholesale destruction of railways and stations. A large quantity of ether and petrol bombs, wero found in a passenger train between Zurich and Schnffhouso. Arrests resulted in the disclosue of a spying organisation at Zurich similar to that at Lugano, which implicated a man who had been a German Consul. Tho "Vollcsrecht," a Socialist newspaper, asserts that the organisation is really a criminal one, which contemplates a series of city and railway murders. There is reason to believo that the police are the instigators, and shared in tho sanguinary outbreak on November 17.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE ARREST OF A SYDNEY BREWER WHY KESCH WAS INTERNED. Melbourne, November 28. The Minister for Defence (Senator Scarce) states that Resch (the wellknown brewer) was interned in consequonco of information which reached the Government.—Press Association.