A SPY SENSATION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 31, 5 February 1916, Page 4

A SPY SENSATION.

ABEEST AT WELLIHOTOr.

SUSPECT ROUGHLY HA^J^r-,

(By Telegraph.—Press ABSocJaaon.y'

WELLINGTON, ,Fr%. ; A man supposed to be a suspected of being a spy was ajreittd before the steamer Manuka left iMJJnjg for Sydney. The man had been jjj wj§| ington for some time, and suspicion was aroused by the pertinacity of big quiries among the French reservists travelling in the Manuka as to the nature" o f the defences in the Pacific Islands. ' The Frenchmen got excised, aijd the German was handled roughly by until rescued by the authorities. -'.". The military authorities were-som, municated with, and the man was under arrest. It is understood £hai ju was trying to get away from the Dogiii ion in the Manuka. When the announcement was mad* in the Anti-German League's ropm/this evening that a supposed spy had- tern arrested there was great excise'nie-it among the members presentT &s»*( those who heard the news with intisttjt was Madame Boeufve. wife of if. Bpeijvc (formerly French Consul fpr Jfey &, land). --ST. "As soon as I heard of the $rrest V she said, " I went straight down, to "th, steamer, accompanied by Mr. J : ~ Payne M.P. There I interviewed the' ftenei reservists, and also spoke to the police. sergeant, obtaining from the former the following story: This man, they laid was one of the first persons to go aboard the Maitaj when they arrived by r n*er last Sunday. He took pains to make hinself most amiable to them, and accompanied them wherever they went. he asked them all sorts of questions,"and' in a quiet -way sought to diacpye'r as much as he could about them.' It "was - however, noticed that he spoke |renij with a accent, and'they became suspicious of him and his apparent friendship. Still they made and in their way led him on still farther To-night on the; boat„ when they all together, he said to them: Tfave yoi any naturalised Germans ampng 'yonfThinking to put Him to the test, pne'tf the reservists replied. 'Yes. I am a naturalised German.' The ri--s,eryis"jf once found his hand seized and wrua» with effusion by his ' friend i' "ThereiS several others announced that they also were naturalised t Germans, and eyeW one of them was shaken by the hand aud greeted. This, however, proved to be altogether too much for thei'"reservist-. whose anger bad been steadUylisinl' They became most excited,, find I'thti there was trouble. They crowdedia upon the man and began to beat" ami kick him till others on the ship fcadlp intervene. Had he not been taken away he would probably have been thrown into the harbour, so angry were the reservists. But his removal satred-him f ron harm." .. ; v^-'|-Madame Boeufve added that »hen she told the reservists later she 'was vicepresi,dent of the Anti-German' league they .said they w<jre proud that aFrtnW »•£!&# jpjned-an j» Frahce!" and "Down"with the ; 'saiMri'' Un " wif! \ *T* ft ' 6 '• S» -V°.Ujr , v Vay , t? :•