A Bussion spy, Colonel Alexander Protopopoff, was recently arrested, together with his companion, Lieutenant-Colonel Patica, in Austrian Poland, in consequence of their being discovered taking sketches of fortifications. Protopopoff was attached to the Russian Embassy at Constantinople. While there ho took the opportunity of accurately noting the now fortifications around the oitv and on the Bosphorus and Dardanelles and the Asiatic coast generally. Before tho date of the Berlin Congress Protopopoff, disguised, explored the passes of the Carpathian and Transylvanian mountains and the whole of the south-eastern frontier of Austria, and, in concert with Colonel Philipoff, arranged a scheme for invading Austria from that direction with a picked body of cavalry and artillery.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6490, 15 December 1881, Page 5
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113Untitled Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6490, 15 December 1881, Page 5
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