BEAUTIFUL SPY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1929, Page 8

BEAUTIFUL SPY

SECRET SERVICE PANIC,

VIENNA, June 13. Charlotte von Wolffen, the notorious international spy, was being sought throughout Prague to-day bjl 3,000 CzechenSlovakian gendarmes and detecteives. All of them scrutinised carefully, in the hope of identifying the quarry every pretty woman they saw. The reason for this sudden energy was the discovery that Mademoiselle von Wolffen corresponds closely to the description given by the chauffeur Karl Al'bersliausen, of the woman driven by him, from Dresden to the Czech frontier with Captain Falout, the spy who was arrested last week. Falout was accustomed- to meet a beautiful and elegantly dressed woman in night Ibars and cabarets in Dresden and Berlin recently and in (Vienna and Bratislava earlier this year. A panic in military and secret service circles has ensued in Prague, where the General Staff headquarters has been working all night since Falout’s arrest. It is obvious that secrets of the greatest importance have been disclosed. Every hotel, restaurant, coffee house casino, cabaret, and night bar is now being visited at. frequent intervals by ■political detectives skilled in penertating disguises,, for the possibility of the woman spy being still in Czeclio-Slav-valcia is keeping all responsible officials sleepless. A similar search is proceeding throughout the country,.and the liontiers and all : oiu roads are under special supervisi m—to an extent unheard of since the war. Mile, von Wolffen speaks many languages, including English, French and Czech, and is said to mesmerise her mem victims into complete subservience.