MILITARY SECRETS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 408, 18 January 1909, Page 5

MILITARY SECRETS.

j ,['.': .', ATTEMPTED SALE., ~V' : '. SENTENCES' PASSED IN' GERMANY, (BY TELEGRAM—KIESS ASSOCIATION—COrYItIGHT.) :.'■'■■ { ' '■;;.-. Berlin,^'January. 15. ! ; .:.'. Fraulein Peterson, governess in ' a Gorman naval family, and an accomplice of Dietrich, was .sentenced to;' four', years' imprisonment for treason, at Leipzig; ;The is surv posed to have: bebn' in 'the ' service of - Franco.

//Dietrich/-was sentenced to' five years'; imr prisorinie'nt • on' a charge of plotting to, re-: veal to France the 'secret of' German, sniqke,less powder.;//' ';<' .;:;;•..: '~'■ / •..■■.•'■ ■"•'.

A •B.EAUTI FUL SPY i AND HER UOVER

On July 1 the "Daily Mail's" Berlin correspondent wrote:—" Fraulein, Petersen,'.':.of . Hamburg, a, beautiful.' .and, fashionably, -dressed teacher :of: languages; : \ylio gives her .age. as fo-'y-four, but.loots.twenty-five,'; is under ar■ri i at : Kiel, on" suspicion of; being a /French' ispy. '■'• At her examination before -the". Naval Secret; Service- Board, she was charged /with 'having contracted 'a love affair with a. noncommissioned!oflicei''nnirie(l Dietrich, of/the Explosives Department, fci-.l'':i. n;i:-poso of inducing him to divulge impr.:":'.""'. ' !orman naval 'secrets. Dietrich is also in custody. :< "The information on which they are alleged to ■ have' been '-working when detected, was ,a ; formula for-the manufacture of German smoke-, ;lc'ss powder, ono of. the most effective 'yet in-' vented, and-the situation' of port mines; The' 'woman, whose, parents'.conduct a;humble- restaurant business in Hamburg,' has been living in! Kiel 'as a'teacher, of languages'.-'---For a timo she made her home with the family of a naval captain. Suspicion was directed against her. on account of 'the'.,ample., funds .'with which .she was always, provided and;of her;fear of giving the/police the customary, notice, on.her frequent changes .of address. It is. alleged :thrit. she .was accustomed, to receive £25 ■ a';'-month from Paris via Brussels.", ~., , '■■■'. '•■'•■.