HOW AUSTRIA WAS SOLD

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 1, 2 June 1913, Page 5

HOW AUSTRIA WAS SOLD

BY ONE OF ITS HIGH OFFICERS. RUSSIA'S ADVANTAGE. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 1, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, May 31. The treachery of Colonel Redls, an active officer of the General Staff, who committed suicide when on the point of arrest on charges of immorality and selling secrets to a foreign Power, was discovered through an accident. When Lieutenant Jandric was arrested, his papers included a letter from the chief of the Foreign Espionage Bureau, directing him to receive letters from Colonel Redl, also a cypher. This was used In a telegram summoning Colonel Redl from Prague to Vienna. Redl immediatelv went, detectives following him. The authorities are criticised for failing to suspect the origin of the large sums that Colonel Redl was spending. He received £IO,OOO for last winter's work. Throughout the Balkan crisis he enabled Russia to reply to the movements of the Austrian forces. The Russian movements, indeed, sometimes anticipated the Austrian plans. Three arrests have been made in Vienna, and others are expected. Jandric, an accomplice, has been sentenced to life imprisonment in a fortress. Colonel Redl received £IOO,OOO for his secrets, including the plans relating to the co-operation of the Austrian and German armies.