A YANKEE YARN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 7, 9 June 1913, Page 5

A YANKEE YARN.

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c . viv] oj LJ i By Cable— AMoeiatron-MJopyright. ,"" June 6. London paperff 'give' prominence to a' New York Alnericiiivs story that Greaves, the, so-called J&ielaide' doctor, Was released soon 1 after, lug' sentence in oraer to join the British Service, and was sent to ,'America,'; where lie claimed to have dis'covereS that envoys of Germany and Japan 'at' a meeting in New York hq.d completed an anti-Aiiierican agreement, Germany riot to interfere in a great Japanese scheme for the colopisafion .of, f South Seas. Greaves cableft a copy of the agreement to the Forgjgn yifjee, but received no payment, anc/ accordingly made it public. ;; Augard Karl (jreaves, who described himself as, an- Australian, was found in the possession .of a, quantity of documents containing information likely to be useful to a hostile Power, at the Central Station .Hotel,' at Glasgow, in 1912.

AX EX-AUSTRALIAX CRIMINAL

Received 5.5 p.m.

London, . Jon6 7. 1 "rler cross-examination on Lockwood's assertion that Godfrey used his name, Briggs broke down. -

Scottish,X)fflce states that Greaves Was released in due course of the law.

Newspaper comment .states that the minimum of imprisonment with exemplary conduct should be thirteen and a half months. Greaves was known to the New South Wales police,,by various names, and <jvas prosecuted in Sydney in 1010, as an uncertified doctor.