SPIES PAY PENALTY.
DRAMATIC DISCLOSERES
(Received December 13, 10.80 a.m.) LONDON, December 11.
The newspapers reveal that 12 spieswore shot in tho Tower during the war and another committed i suicide in his cell. Others were sentenced to penal servitude.
The third one shot was Car) Lody, who possessed great nerve, and rei source. He obtained accurate information, but subsequently his letters and telegrams were intercepted by special contrivances. He and, another spy, Derysdach, were to ascertain the sailings of transports for information of the German submarines, and also tho location of munition factories* in Loudon and Home counties- for aerial raiders. ■ , | Two women spies wero sentenced to penal servitude. One owned a fast motor-car, with which she frequently visited Rosyth, obtaining information of the movements of British warships, ! but the information was intercepted and never reached Germany.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AG19181213.2.17.14
Bibliographic details
Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9476, 13 December 1918, Page 5
Word Count
138SPIES PAY PENALTY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9476, 13 December 1918, Page 5
Using This Item
Ashburton Guardian Ltd is the copyright owner for the Ashburton Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Ashburton Guardian Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.