MILITARY ESPIONAGE.
THREE MEN ARRESTED IN GERMANY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Berlin, March 5. The three men arrested at Frankfort on Maine for betraying military secrets include a German mechanic, who wrote to the French Embassy offering drawings and details of the new Krupp gun and projectile. Count Wolff Metternich accused Lieutenant Beckhams, from whom he alleges he won £350 in London, of espionage in England under the direction of a German military authority and of sending reports regularly to the German Government. Lieutenant Beckhams testified that he was sent to London partly on military and partly on private business. LAX SUPERVISION AT ALDERSHOT. Received 7, 12.10 a.m. Berlin, March 6. Lieutenant Beckhams denied that he acted as a spy in England or that he went there on any official mission. He had visited Aldershot, where- he was received as a German officer and shown things which ordinarily no one would be allowed to see. Hieronymus, one of the men arrested at Frankfort, will be charged with attempting to negotiata with the British and French' Embassies.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 7 March 1912, Page 5
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175MILITARY ESPIONAGE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 213, 7 March 1912, Page 5
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