ESPIONAGE ARREST.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 141, 4 February 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

ESPIONAGE ARREST.

GERMAN* WOMAN MARRIED TO A FRENCH OFFICER. Great excitement has been treated in a town in the south-west oi 1' ranee (says the Central News) by the arrest of a beautiful adventuress on a charge of espionage. The woman was born Mi. Hamburg, and lived in Berlin until shortly before the outbreak of war. During the first months of hostilities she resided in France, rnd, curiously enough, her nat onal'ty was never discovered by the authorities. She made the acquaintance of many French officers, had various residences in Pans, and the provinces, and had a number of motor cars at her disposal. Finally suspicion was aroused in certain quarters, and in order to throw the police off the track she marr.ed a French officer. She subsequently made frequent journeys to England, Switzerland. and Spain, and would probably have been able to continue her carper uninolest'.-d had not a high military official taken matters into his own hands and ordered her arrest. An inquiry brought about some interesting disclosures, and the woman will shortly appear before a military tribunal on a charge of espionage.