FATE OF SPIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1918, Page 5

FATE OF SPIES.

MANY PUNISHED IN LONDON. TWELVE SHOT AT THE TOWER. London, Dee. It The newspapers reveal that 12 spie3 were shot in the Tower during the war. Another committed suicide in his cell. Others wen sentenced to penal ser*'.tude. The third shot was Carl Lody, wno possessed great nerve and resource. He obtained accurate information, but latterly his letters and telegrams were 'atcrcepted. The special functions of Lodj and of another spy named Derysda«h were to ascertain the tailings of tran sports for the information of submarines, also the location of munition factories in London pd the Home counties for aerial raidere. Two women spies were sentenced to penal servitude. Ope owned a fast motor ear with which she frequently visited Rosvth, obtaining information of the movements of British warships, but tie information waa intercepted and sever reached Germany—Aus.-N.Z. Cab.e AssocFRENCH SENTENCES. DEATH AND IMPRISONMENT. Paris, Dec. It De Silva lias been sentenced to death, the woman Punert to 20 years' imprisonment, and the student Garte to U years' imprisonment, all for espionage.— AD3.-N.Z. CaWe Assoc