AIRMAN SPY TRIAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 July 1919, Page 6

AIRMAN SPY TRIAL.

SECRET INK IN S-WEETI-lEART’S HANDKERCHIEFS. ‘ ‘ ' 59 '—+. < Probably the first 'll‘lllß.ll to be i Court-martialled on a charge of trea- 1 chery will be Corporal Paul Teulat, , says the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” His case is a strange I one, and especially interesting as?‘ showing the anxiety of the Germans to know the spots in Paris where their I‘ Big shells fell. ( In May last year Teulat was obliged 1 to land behind the German lines, and II was sent to one of the prisoners’ campus "formed by them for recruiting spies ;l and traitors. The Huns first threat-l ened to shoot the young airman, and ‘ then offered to release him if he ‘WOu-’ld , supply information concerning -the I'csults of the shelling of Paris. Theyli said handkerchiefs would be sent to him which he was to soak in water I] {in order to obtain secret ink with 1] which to write his reports. Thclatter were to be forwarded through a‘( Jjrench prisoner interned in Switzer- i] land. :1 ....-I .. :. . In the autumn of last year,thc’a.t- I 4 ‘tention of the French intelligence De- ] partment was attracted by a letter V, from this prisoner to a telephone girl in the Seine Department_ saying he was sending -her a parcel of scent and I‘ handkerchiefs. What seemed curious 1 Was that she was recommended to . "handle the handkerchiefs carefully-” A The parcel was traced to Corporal M Teulat at Bourget, who explained that _ the girl was his fiancee and ‘innocent,’ He had given her address fo the Germans for the purpose of forwarding instructions, and his explanations en- _ Pbled the authorities to trace the ori‘,<~,in of a. number of reports in invisible ink passing through the. Swiss post.