SPY STORY.
GERMAN'S CfiNFESSiONS, OPERATIONS IN ENGLAND. JBy Taleeraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrlfUt, Received Get. 11, 12.15 a.m. London, Oct. 10. Lloyds' Sunday News publishes _ the confession by .John Hahn, the British born son of Germans, who has been released after serving sixty-three months in Portland Prison. He was tried with Karl Frederick Muller at the Old Bailey early in June, in 1915, on a charge of espionage- Muller was executed on June 23 in the Tower of London, but the Judges accepted Hahn'a plea that he waa Muller'3 tool. Hahn describes how, after his shop was wrecked by a mob, he was faced with starvation, and became caught in Muller's net. Muller spied on the Grand Fleet, and reported the situation on the East Coast leading up to the bombardments. He asked Hahn to report the number and size of the guns turned out from Woolwich Arsenal weekly. Since his release Hahn has started a small business in the country under an assumed name.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1920, Page 5
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164SPY STORY. Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1920, Page 5
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