ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 185, 3 February 1912, Page 5

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE.

AX ENGLISHMAN ON TRL4L. EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST IN BERLIN. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, February I. Extraordinary interest is being taken m Stewart's trial. The president of the court subjected him to a singular examination regarding his friends and means, suggesting that lie was a wealthy aristocrat. Stewart denied tliat he was a. member of the upper ten thousand, though he was a nephew of Lord Kensington. His income was £2OOO a year When at Oxford he belonged to the volunteers, and he served in South Africa, where he acted as a cavalry scout, not as a spy. He did not ask leave of his military superiors to visit Germany. The prosecution alleges that Stewart inspected the battleships building on the Weser and at Hamburg, and obtained exact details of one. Four dockyards servants were afterwards arrested. It was also alleged that compromising letters from highly placed British officers were found in Stewart's luggage Ex-Inspector of Police Reich has been sentenced to eighteen months'.imprisonment at Essen for espionage. Schultz, the British merchant recently sentenced for espionage, was among the witnesses. 6