SECRET CODE THEFT

Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1929, Page 5

SECRET CODE THEFT

PARTICULARS OF THE BLONDE. .United Press Association.—By Electrio Telegraph Copyright.)h t.) (Received this dav at 8.30. a.m.) LONDON, October 25. Hie beautiful blonde who is concerned in the disappearance of the secret code from the Italian Embassy in Berlin, has just paid a dramatic visit to London, says the “ Daily Chronicle.” She is a native of Jugo-Slavia. and urri-. ved in Berlin early in the spring, rented a luxurious flat and became acquainted with one of the secretaries of the Italian Embassy, and it was soon < vident he was paying marked attention to her. She several times visited him in a room in which was a satfe containing the code. Suddenly the secretary disappeared. He was recalled to Rome secretly and was tried and exiled to an island whence he was unable to communicate with his relations or friends. Meantime the Italian Government, wishing to avoid publicity, did not complain to the Berlin police, but they had the fair Jug'o-Slavian watched. Something must have aroused her suspicions, for. she went to Paris in Ap* gust and thence again, fearing Italian secret agents would have revenge, she hurriedly went to London, ' arriving on Wednesday; accompanied by a-tall dnrk man. Her own companion occupied, a suite lit ah hotel- and within a few hours n Scotland Yard man visited her. What transpired is not known, but the blonde .settled her bill and the little party naught the Dieppe bogt train from Victoria,