Actress in Spy Case

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 May 1918, Page 1

Actress in Spy Case

FIVE AEEESTS IN PASIS.

NIGHT MOTOR-CAR JOURNEYS.

Official reticenco delays the full disclosures concerning the treasonable acts for which Suzy Depsy, actress, her husband Guillier, and other alleged accomplices are now under arrest.

All that is known is that the suspected persons are accused of entertaining relations With an Austro-German information agency and banking establishment in Switzerland, managed by the Austrian financier Rozenberg, and a German named Bettelheim. Rozenberg was well known in Paris before the war. He retired to Switzerland a few days before the outbreak of hostilities, after making a fortune by speculating at the Bourse on the diplomatic events of the tragic month of July, 1914. Tremblez, one of the men arrested, was Rozenberg's confidential clerk, and when the Austrian fled from Paris was left in charge of the Rozenberg bank. Since the war it appears that Tremblez has made frequent visits to Zurich, and has been in constant communication with his former employer. Before the war he was manager to the boxers Marcel Moreau and the negro Sam McVea. £2000 DISTRIBUTED. It is worth while noting here, by the way, that practically all the persons arrested since! the war on charges of treason are connected more or less closely with the chain of international finance, from 8010 and Caillaux downwards. Jay, the Dijon antiquarian, has confessed to carrying messages and money to and from Rozenberg. He admitted receiving more than £2000, of which he kept nearly £600, the remainder going to Tremblez, who is said to have distributed it among Rozenberg's other agents—Suzy Depsy, Guillier, and Brodier. The latter belong to the French counter-espionage organisation. When Jay's movements became suspicious some time ago it was Brodier who replaced him as Rozenberg's cour. ier. The signal for Jay's or Brodier's journeys to Switzerland was the arrival of an illustrated postcard bearing some commonplace greeting signed in a woman's name. Tremblez, who was fond of passing as a rich man, possessed a chateau near Quimperle, on the Brittany coast, purchased since the war. People of the region seem to have been struck by the frequent motor-car journeys made by night by Tremblez. It is upon this that a romantic tneory nas been built, according to which one of the chief tasks of Tremblez was to see that German submarines operating off Brittany were kept supplied with everything needed. officers and men. For months I tasted boiled snails, and on one happy occasion with a drowned camel which had lain at the bottom of a well for two days! Five of my companions died as thp result of want, and I, a man of 40, came out weighing exactly the same as jo Xoq v stbm. j natfM. ptp 1 A scheme instituted by Mr F. Jeune for the purpose of interesting the school children of the Coromandel district in the War Loan has met with dccided -uccess. Mr Jeune commenced his cam- > isn on 12th April, when he addressed lie children of the Coromandel District Kigh School, tolling them that he would : .ike up 65 War. Loan certificates, one of which he would offer each child who ' •i.-hed to take up part of the loan, but ! '."d not the means to do so at hand, on the condition that the 13s is to be retiaid to him 011 or before the maturity of the certificate, the child keeping the Thus I think I can speak on the sub•t of rations from the point of of one who has had truth rubbed into him by hard facts. On our so-called ivar rations now I nm getting fat, because potatoes are not rationed. When there is no fresh meat, tinned beef and fish are generally procurable. People ; think they are being starved becuuse ; they have no juicy joint to tempt •\nd because bread with butter is distasteful to a jaded appetite. Anyone who has been really hungry knows that plain dry bread and plain potatoes are delicious food—but hardly anyone in '-'ngland knows what they really taste '■'ke. Though nobody has a greater natural dislike than I have of being hungry, I contend that we shall all be better for less food. The old saints knew what they were about when they went i-i for fasting. Fasting clarifies one's mental and physical senses; indigestion and many other troubles entirely disappear, and one has a sense of buoyanee and general fitness. Too little food is probably worse than too much, for then one becomes. lethargic and unable to work or remember clearly—in fact, a fatalist who cares little about anything and is the prey of disease and deapair. A great num ber of Germans must now be nearii>g this stage, but probably half the amount of food we have been accustomed to consume daily is more than ample to keep us at our fittest. Wo are just in our first round, not beginning to breathe hard yet, and with sufficient food for all our real needs.