RAIDERS REPULSED.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1917, Page 5

RAIDERS REPULSED.

ARTILLERY AND AERIAL ACTIVITY. Aus, and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Renter, I Received Oct. 16, 8.50 p.m. i London; Oct. 15. Sir Douglas Haig reports: Hostile raiders eastward of Shrewsbury forest were repulsed. Hostile artillery has been more active in the neighborhood of Lena and Nieuport. There lias also been much aerial activity. Four German machines were brought down. THE DUTCH DANCER SHOT. HOW SHE BETRAYED THE TANKS. BY FASCINATING A BRITISH OFFICER. United Service. Received Oct. 16, 8.45 p.m. ]2aris, Oct. 15. Ma'tahari, the bor.utiful Dutch dancer. was shot this morning for espionage. She betrayed the tanks to Germany preceding the Somme battle. While fulfilling a dancing engagement , at Paris she fascinated an English officer wearing the dragon badge of the Tanks Corps. They were frequently seen together at cafes. In May, 1910, she applied for a permit to visit a certain port, stating that her fiancee was a British officer who had been wounded, and she wished to marry him before lie died. She arrived simultaneously with the ifirst consignment of tanks from England and stayed a week, having the run of the port. A month later sift returned to Paris and obtained a passport for San Sebastian, Spain, where she was seen in the company of a suspected German agent. During the Somrae offensive the tanks were opposed by a new German gun expressly made for service against tanks, and German prisoners admitted that the tanks were betrayed. Times Service. Matahari's trial revealed that she was duly registered under a number in the German spy lists. She admitted receiv- ; ing large sums of money since last year ; for information supplied to leading Ger» ■ man spies. i