THE SPY SCARE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 100, 3 June 1914, Page 7

THE SPY SCARE.

ARRESTED,

ADMISSIONS" TO DBTBGTIVB,

By Cable.-—Press. Association.—Copyright. \ , (Received Jfm<r 3> 9.35 a.m.) . , LONDON, Jmie2. '

Samuel Maddiek ? an electrical fitter,, at the Portsmouth- Dockyard has- been

kcharged with espionage.- ■ •' - £ j. -A.- detective L that''when he 'was■ j aireated.ftlVe- accused*"admitted -that he-'' j was shortly going to Ostend to meet the , ftgent of a foreign Power, Mbut dcm«d tjkat. he -possessed any secVfct infotfroalion. V . r . BECAUSE HE WAS AERITISHER. : BUILDER STRIKES TROUBLE. . (Received June 3, 10/10' a.m.) , : . BERLIN, June 2. 1 j .iMackeniie,: a Johannesburg- builder, was 1 arrested 'on a charge of. near Dortmund, ;but: was immediately ft}'" teased. .• ' , I. .

. A . gehdar-me explained" that, he arrested Mackenzie, suspeastin'g - him'' of j espionage because lie was a Britisher.