ARREST OF GERMAN SPY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 84, 7 August 1915, Page 7

ARREST OF GERMAN SPY.

A CHARGE OF FORGERY. i United Press Association. Loudon, August 5. Iguatus Tw-Wcb has been arrested at New York for forgery in England. (.Ignatius Timothy Tribicb Lincoln, ex-LiberaJ M.P., recently confessed to the New York press that he was a German spy. and endeavoured to give effect to a scheme to trap the British fleet.

Lincoln, whose real name is Tibicb. is the son of a Hungarian shipowner, and was elected member for Darlington in -the House of Commons in January, 1910, but was not a. candidate in the election of December, 1910. He was ordained in the Church of England in 1903, and became a naturalised Englishman in 1909, when lie took the name of Lincoln, to assist in electioneering as an anti-tariff reformer. During this campaign he took parties of workingmen to Germany so aK to experience life under protection. According to his story to the New Pork press, Tribich, on the outbreak of the war, conceived an abhorrence of England. Consequently he was determined to act as a German spy, and was able to give Austria and Germany important information owing to his highly-placed friends in England, but he wished to bring off a coup. , H<> offered his services to Sir Edward Crey and Mr Winston Churchill, and finally, by bringing useful information from'Rotterdam, obtained from the German Consul, he won the confidence of the British Secret Service. He propounded a scheme for luring part, of the British fleet to a cerVuin bay. where the Germaus were within easy striking distance, but the Secret Service refused to disclose the whereabouts of the British fleet to anyone. Tribicb described the codes whereby the German spies transmitted messages to Germany, giving particulars of the movements of the fleet. Finally the Secret Service discovered the fraud, and Tribicb fled to America.'