America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 90, 13 November 1916, Page 5

America

A NEW YORK SENSATION.

KARL CRAVES ARRESTED.

SECRET SERVICE MAN CHARGED WITH BLACKMAIL. ■ > Yum *n Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. i;v I. y > (Received 8.55 a.m.) Washington, November 12, Armgaard Karl Graves, author of “Secrets of the German War Office” has been arrested on a charge of attempting to blackmail Countess Bernstorff. 1 The detectives assert that he asked an official of the German Embassy for three thousand dollars in return for an alleged embarrassing letter, w'hich, the detectives believe was written by a girl cousin in Germany.

In his book, “The Secrets of the German War Office,” which was written some months before the ar, Graves supplied unpreedented and astounding revelations of the inner workings of the German Secret Service, Department. Dr. Graves who recently w-as imprisoned by the British for spying at Rosyth, tells his tale without concealment or hesitation from the day when he entered the “spy school” at Berlin to the day when he finally left the service in disgust. From the first page —a scene at question-time in the English Parliament—to tho end of the story th ■ interest and excitement never flags, the most extravagant inventions of fiction are put to shame by some of the actual events of which the author writes. At any time it would have attracted universal attention; now its interest is immense. The disclosures of the hidden forces of German politics and secret diplomacy reveal the sleepless eye of their war machine and show the subterranean information by which Wilhelms trasse endeavoured to remake the political map of Europe.