SECRET SERVICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 24, 2 June 1913, Page 5

SECRET SERVICE.

A COLONEL'S TREACHERY. RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. [By Klectuic Tei,echai>h—CorvniGHT] lUniteu Press Association.l Vienna, May 81. The treachery of Colonel Redls, an active officer of the General Staff, who committed suicide when on the point of arrest on charges of immorality and selling secrets to a foreign Power, was discovered through an accident. When Lieutenant Jandric was arrested, his papers included a letter from the chief of tho Foreign Espionage Bureau, directing him to receive letters from Colonel Redl, also a cypher. This was used in a telegram summoning Colonel Redl from Prague to Vienna. Redl immediately went, detectives following him. The' authorities are criticised for failing to suspect the origin of the largo sums that Colonel Redl was spending. He received £IO,OOO for last winter's work. Throughout the Balkan crisis ho enabled Russia to reply to the movements of tho Austrian forces. Tho Russian moveI m.ents, indeed, sometimes anticipated ; tho Austrian plans. Three arrests have been made in J Vienna, and others are expected. Jandric, an accomplice, has been sentenced to lifo imprisonment in a fortress. REDL'S FORCED SUICIDE. (Received 8.50 a.m.) Vienna, Juno 1. Four officers forced Redl to sign his resignation from the army before they lefb tho Browning revolver. The conduct of the military authorities in compelling Redl to commit suicide is sharply criticised, as it is suggested that trial might have revealed I important clues.