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STATEMENT BY INFORMER VERRU LONG CAREER AS A SPY. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) BERLIN, February 14. The "Hamburger Nachrichten" interviewed Verm, the informer, who stated that he joined the British Espionage Bureau in 19C8. at the request of the' Director of the brewery which Verru represented on the Continent. The \\ar Office paid him £250 annually. When the brewery discharged Verru in 1910, he joined the German Counter-espionage Service, still continuing his relations with the British War Office. Stewart; introduced himself ,as from the War Office. He was disguised, and called himself Martin, and stated that he intended to go to Germany as a traveller for patent bottle stoppers. Verru accordingly felt it his duty to guard Germany against this systematic British espionage. Germany, moreover, paid for his services better. A swarm of English detectives followed him. since August, trying to kidnap him in, an automobile.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10559, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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156ESPIONAGE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10559, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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