GRIM WAR STORY

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1930, Page 6

GRIM WAR STORY

ATTEMPT TO SEIZE SHIP

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright;.

PARIS, Jan. 20,

There was a desperate attempt made to seize the French convict ship “La Matiniere.” during her recent voyage to “Devil’s Island.” This was revealed on the return of the ship to La Rochelle for her. second human cargo.

The attempt occurred during the lunch hour, while the vessel was in mid-ocean.

One guard was left on duty and as he was passing their cage, three of the convicts put their arms through the bars and seized him from behind, and they succeeded in grabbing his revolver, but the weapon fell outside the cage. An attempt was then made to strangle the guard, hut he. cried out, and other guards hurried to his aid. The convicts became thoroughly aroused, and they battered' the iron bars, but then came a threat to turn on hot steam in the pipes which are purposely attached to the. cages for such an emergency. This quietened the leaders, who were placed in solitary’ confinement. . Oiie of the convicts was the Limoges millionaire murderer, Barafano, whose trial was one of the cause, eolebres last year.

1 BRITISH SPIES

BETRAYED BY RUSSIAN SPY

BERLIN, Jan. 20

A grim story of the War has boon unearthed at Warsaw, aecoiding 1° tho newspapers. Three skeletons have recently been discovered in a cellar, and have been identified, by I ra 8rnents of clothing, as those of - two Englishmen, named Herbert George and Sidney Peel, and an English woman, 'Ruth Jameson. All of these were members of the ißritish Secret Service, They were sent to Warsaw in 1914 to discover the chief of the German spy oiganisation, who, it is ascertained, was a Russian priest, named Chachlokov The latter was in constant communication with a Russian captain named Mjassojebow, at Petrograd. This they reported to Petrograd and London. after which they received a telegram ordering them to Petrograd. and to report to. the Russian Minister, M. Sukhemlinow, the War Minister. A military motor car met them, after which they disappeared. The newspapers state that. they were betrayed to Captain Mjassojebow, ivho sent a fictitious telegram, and arranged that they should l>e immediately shot. Captain Mjassojebow’s treachery was later discovered, and ..he- was shot for .espionage on behalf , of Germany,’ In 1915 Chachlakow was arrested and released, hut recently he-was arrested in Poland ,on a charge of espionage. His trial is expected to refer to .the murders.