ARRESTED AS SPY

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 5

ARRESTED AS SPY

“MARIE-LOUISE” BAILLIE-STEWART CASE ECHO. (United Press Association— By ElectricTelegraph—Atopyright. ) HELSINGFORS, October 27. By a strange coincidence >he. (Marie Louise espionage case has developed following the strange disappearance across the Russian border of a, Finnish officer, Lieutenant Pentikainen, who is alleged to have abandoned with important documents. The cou n ter-es_ pionzge police have now arrested Mar.e Louise Martin on suspicion of -being the head of a -gang divulging military secrets to Russia. An American teacher h-s also been arrested. The police suspect that Martin’s Canadian passport is a forgery. -She speaks poor English but fluent German, MARIE -LOUISE’S IDENTITY. LONDON, October 28 Mr McGovern, the Glasgow. Labour ■M.P., claims to have established beyond douht the identity of “Marie Lc-uise” a-s Olga Israel, an attractive twenf-y-fiarfio yea*’? old Jewess, Sbe ia living with her ’Wealthy parents in Berlin, She had “afiair” , Avith Lieutenant Bgillie -Stewart, bui it was not in any .way connected, with the court martial,. «., .--v. J>.. DENIAL BY; OLGA ISRAEL. (Received this day at 10.27 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The “Sunday Express” Berlin cor’espondemt interviewed Olga Israel, who flatly denies Commoner McGovern’s allegation that she i s Marie Louise. “I am supposed to be like -her, that’s all. It’s terrible that I -should be singled out. I -never s aw Lieut. BaillieStewart in my life. It has been twice reported that Marie Louise died, once in Switzerland, and once im Holland. REHEARING UNLIKELY. (Received til's dav at 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The “Sunday Chronicle” is informed that a rehearing of the Baillie-Stewarb case is unlikely. The military author-it-ies'hre satisfied they have established •the identity' of Marie Louise.