DARING SPY PLAN
ON AMERICAN.PASSPORT.::":: DISCOVERED IN TIME, i"*^
NEW YORK, February 28.;,,
* A German ' naval reservist, nanied ! Stegler, has beien'aiTe^ed"on^a ; enargaoTt fraudulently obtaining an American passI port;; He confessed that-"Captain' Boyed,'" ! the German naval attache at Washington, endeavoured to induce.him to proceed to I England to act as a-spy. Captain "Boyed* denies, the charge. '~../..'.' .'./..'•.".'■ .'■'•'."' Stegler declared that Captain Boyed I wished,.to report wasitrue that Britain had fitted out merchant , cruisers at. BeHsist to sink tb«n''ift.-the. s , mouths of the Elbe andWeser, in order -tp'.- ---: blockade the ports. After discc^ering'lhe'imovements ot the" British fleet in.the'" Irisbf." Sea, Stegler.. was' ordered .toJ proceed" to.. j Rottierdani andi give German, officers-; onf* the .frontier a secret password.,; He.was; then to proceed to Berlin-to deliver; hi?}. j information to the.Secret Service Bureau.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 51, 1 March 1915, Page 5
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