ESPIONAGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 43, 15 February 1912, Page 5

ESPIONAGE.

STATEMENT MADE BY STEWART’S BETRAYER.

PAID BY BOTH PARTIES

Berlin, February 14

The Hamburger Nachrichton interviewed Verm, the informer in the Captain Stewart case. Ho stated that ho joined the British Espionage Bureau in 1908 at the request of the director of a brewery who Verru represented on the Continent. The War Office paid him £250 annually. When the brewery discharged Verru in 1910 he joined the German counter espionage service, continuing his relations with the British. Captain Stewart introduced himself as from the War Office. He was disguised, and called himself Martin, and stated that he intended to go to Germany as a traveller for patent bottle stoppers. Verru accordingly felt it his duty to guard Germany against systematic British espionage. Germany, moreover, paid him for his services bettor. A swprm of English detectives, he said, had followed him since August, trying to kidnap him in an automobile.