ESPIONAGE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10550, 5 February 1912, Page 5

ESPIONAGE

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(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph — Copyright.)

THE STEWART CASE NEW WAR OFFICE INSTRUCTION. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) LONDON,' February 3. , The .Wax Offroe has issued fresh instructions to officers travelling in Germany, which include the reporting of themselves in Alsace-Lorraine to the police and military authorities in every town. As revealed in the course of "the Stewart espionage trials he, as an officer, travelled thtougjli* Germany without the knowledge of the War Office. BERLIN, February 3. The case against Captain /Stewart is exclusively based upon the evidence of a Belgian, who, according to the defence, while acting as interpreter and guide ,thrust upon Stewart information una&ked, and then denounced him as a spy. The witness? es showing that the Belgian was untrustworthy, and had previously been convicted, the .Belgian Court dispensed with the evidence of the rest. CAPTAIN STEWART SENTENCED. THREE AN DA HALF YEARS. Received This Morning, 12.20 o'clock February 4. Captain Stewart has been sentenced to three and a half years' imprisonment in a fortress. '•■.... Stewart addressed the public in court, and wished every one in England to know that an was inno-J cent. I