EVACUATION OF UKRAINE, ESTHONIA AND LIVONIA

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1918, Page 5

EVACUATION OF UKRAINE, ESTHONIA AND LIVONIA

FRANCE.

the Espionage arrests. FURTHER DETAILS Paris, March 4. In connection with the espionage arrests one man involved is Tremblez, formerly Rosenberg's confidential agent in Paris, who is the owner of a luxurious chateau in Brittany. His mistress was Sozy'Dephy, the actress, who was the wife of a man named Guillain. The latter was also one of the gang. The Petit Parisien states that Tremblez told a friend that his Swiss affairs .earned him £IBO,OOO. The authorities searched his premises and discovered that he was communicating with Germans. \ They suspected that German submarines were obtaining, or attempting to obtain, supplies from the coast of Brittany, and •et a trap which resulted in the arrests. .DIPLOMATIC REVELATIONS. . HOT TRICK THAT FAILED. London, March 4. , fhe iParis correspondent of the Daily ilegraph. referring to M. Pichon's reflations cabled on Friday, says the references to Verdun and Toul appeared at the end of a long dispatch, only a portion of which was published in the German White Book. When Count von Schoen offered ne'irtrality he expected M. Vitiani would accept or reject it. If the latter. France would have borrte the onus of commencing the world war, if the former Count von Schoen would have disclosed liumili- " ating conditions. The trick failed, M: Viviani merely, replying that France's conduct would be dictated by her honor and interests.

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