WAR SECRETS
CHARGE AGAINST ARMAMENT WORKER TALK OF SELLING PLANS TO FOREIGNERS INSPECTOR’S ALLEGATIONS i By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. Robinson Walker, a former employee of Vickers, Armstrong, has been committeed for trial under the Official Secrets Act. He allegedly told John Burch, an inspector of the Vikers, Armstrong works, that he was an agent for Italy, Germany and Russia, and that there would be plenty of money if he obtained for him plans of a fusesetting machine which the Russian trade delegation would photograph. Walker pleaded not guilty and declared that he never divulged any secrets. He fought in the Great War for four years.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1938, Page 5
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