GERMANY'S SPY SYSTEM
(Rec. March 4, 7 p.m.)
NEST OF FINANCIAL SCHEMERS IN SWITZERLAND. Paris, March 3.
The evidence in the Humbert espionngo case revealed a veritable hornet's nest of financial schemers in Switzerland, working in Germany's interests. The chief operator was the Austrian banker Rosenberg, who lived in Pari3 till the war, and then took refuge in Zurich. There he engaged a large staff of spies, for whose payment Erzberger, a German deputy, deposited a largo sum. Erzberger and 8010 stayed at tho same hotol in Zurich in 1915. Evidence was obtained of tho visits _ of agents, who frequently went to Zurich, and on returning paid Swiss cheques into tho Paris banks.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
GERMANY'S NATIONAL DEBT
Amsterdam, March 3. In the Reichstag, Count Posadowsky stated that Germany's National Debt id now nearly 124 milliards of marks (£6,176,475,490).—Reuter.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5
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139GERMANY'S SPY SYSTEM Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 142, 5 March 1918, Page 5
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