ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIII, Issue 58, 7 March 1912, Page 5

ESPIONAGE IN GERMANY.

THREE AREESTS MADE. AH OFFICERS ENGLISH VEBIT. BEELIV. March 5. Three men have been arrested at 'Frankfort-on-Main for betraying military secrets. One of them is a German mechanic who wrote to the French Embassy offering drawing ami details of the ** Krupp rru n and projectile. Count Wolff-Metternich, who is on trial for card-sharping, accused Lieutenant Beckhaus—from whom, he alleges, he won £350 in Ixmdon—of having been guilty of espionage in England under the direction of the German military authorities. Beckhaus. says the Count, regularly sent reports to the German Gov*rnmcnt . Lieutenant Beckhaus testified that he *«s sent to London partly on military and partly on private business. He denied that he acted as a spy in KnglanJ. or went there on any official mission. He tinted Aldershot. where he was received ** a German officer, and was shown tnmgß which ordinarilv no one would have been allowed to sec. Hieronynms. one of the men arrested « Prankfort-on-.Main. is charged with attempting to negotiate with the British »nd the French Embassies.