INTERNATIONAL'SPIES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 13

INTERNATIONAL'SPIES

LATEST REVELATIONS

KNOWLEDGE IN EUROPE

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 22. The "Daily Express" says that the British Secret Service is probing the activities of the Switz gang In consequence of the discovery- that the latest tank corps secret, of which plans were only approved in November, were in possession of those arrested, who now total 58. '■

Stavisky is believed to have been the power behind the spy ring and secret service inquiries directly connect the Marie Louise mentioned in the Baillie-Stewart case with the organisation.

A jealously-guarded British naval secret is, revealed in the official organ of the German Admiralty, according to the "Daily Telegraph"" naval correspondent. The paper gives a 'description of a new anti-aircraft machinegun designed to operate against torpedo aeroplanes and low-fl.ving bombers. It adds that the weapon is now part of the armament of British battleships and new criusers.

The Italian service journal states that the British convoy sloop Bittern ordered in the autumn," will have four 6-meh guns and that it is the first of a new and powerful type for commerce protection. "If this is correct, the Admiralty has. at length taken advantage of the clause of the London lreaty placing no check on the buildnig of ships not exceeding 2000 tons and limited to 22 knots and four 6-inch guns," it states. "Twenty of these useful sloops could be built for the price of four Leander cruisers."