America
MISCELLANEOUS'.
United Press Association,
London, February 27
Though the details are still unpublished,, the .English newspapers are unfavorable to President Wilson’s proposals, cabled on the 25th inst. New York, February 26.
Steagler, a German naval reservist, was arrested on a charge”’of fraudulently obtaining an American passport- He confessed that Captain Boyed, the German Naval Attache at Washington, had endeavoured to induce him to proceed to England, and act as a spy. Boyed denies the charge. Steagler declares that Boyed wished to discover whether the report was true that Britain had fitted out merchant cruisers at Belfast to sink them in the mouth of the Elbe and the Weser, in order to blockade these ports. After discovering the movements of the British fleet in the Irish Sea,Steagler was ordered to proceed to Rotterdam, give the German officers on the frontier a secret passport, and continue to Berlin to deliver his information to the Secret Service Bureau.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 6
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156America Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 49, 1 March 1915, Page 6
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