THE SECRET HISTORY.
(Per Press Association,— Copyright)
AN ESPIONAGE THEFT,
(Received This Day at 10.15. a.in ) LONDON, Juno, 24.
“Lloyd’s News” publishes the secret history of the oxposure of Gerlach's espionage conspiracy.
Tho Italian Government was aware that most important documents relating to Austrian espionage wero concealed in a' safe in a house in Vienna, adjoining the German Consulate. The safe was protected by the most complete burglar traps and also mechanicism whereby poison gas was released in the event of tampering. Tho Italian Government in January selected two expert burglars from the prisons, offering them freedom and money if they secured tho documents, it was duly announced that the burglars had escaped from the prison. They reached Vienna by unknown means, equipped with the most complete tools. The burglary was the' fullest of success. \
Early in April the Austrian Government merely announced the safe had been burgled and a large sum or money abstracted.
A secret cypher wireless from Vienna was immediately delivered to Cerlacli, informing him that the documents had been abstracted. Ccrlach quitted Rome forthwith. The Italian secret service raided Gerlacli’s house next day, and found documents revealing New York Austro-Ger-man espionage and pro enemy plots. Three hundred arrests were made in eluding many notables.
A TREASON TRIAL
ROME, June 24
In a great treason trial, th© principal figure being Monsignor Garlaeh, :i prominent Vatican official. It resulted in Garlioh and two others being sentenced to life, and others to five and three years’ imprisonment. Garlaeh and another, who was ordered, to be shot ,aro fugitives from justice.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1917, Page 3
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261THE SECRET HISTORY. Hokitika Guardian, 25 June 1917, Page 3
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