ESPIONAGE AND SABOTAGE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 15, 12 October 1917, Page 5

ESPIONAGE AND SABOTAGE

BERNSTORFF'S INSTRUCTIONS

DISCLOSED

SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS

Washington, , October 10. Tho following cablegrams to Count Bernstorff (lato Gorman Ambassador to tho United Slates) bavo been made public by tho Stato Department:— .

"3rd January, 191 C. "Secret: The General Staff desires energetic action for tho destruction of the Canadian-Pacific at several points, in order to completely interrupt trafiic. Captain Boohm has been instructed to inform the Military Attache to provide the necessary funds.

"(Signed) Zimmermaun." "22nd January. "Obtain particulars of persons suitable for carrying out sabotuge in tho United States and Canada from tho following": Then follow three names, including tnat of Jeremiah O'Leary, of New York, who is described as "reliable, but always discreet." These persons were indicated by Sir-Roger Casement (who was executed for treason on August 4, 1916). ' The cable continued: "Sabotage can be carried out at every kind of munition factory. The .Embassy must not in any circumstances be compromised. Similar precautions must bo taken as to Irish pro-German propaganda. ."■(Signed) Representative of tho'Geueral Stuff." THE FRENCH SCANDALS DEPUTY TURMEL'S WIFE ARRESTED Paris, October !). Madame. Tunnel, wifo oi JH. Turmel, a member of tho Chamber of Deputies, whoso arrest had been ordered l'oi , trading with tne enemy, has been. arrested, iladamo was suspected of changing the Swiss notes whicu her husband brought fioni Switzerland. During tho examination she was identified by the bank otficiale. She 'hotly' denied the accusation, but her arrest was ordered.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [it was recently reported that M. lurmel, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies, left Swiss bank-notes worth .£IOOO in. a. room in the Chamber last July, and did not claim them until the middlo of September, when he explained that ho had received the money for legal services. Ho denied that he had received it in Switzerland for disclosing the events of the secret session of the Chamber of Deputies in Jufte. 'Tunnel attempted to enter Switzerland on an expired passport, but was stopped at the frontier. Later on, alter hearing evidence, the Magistrate ordered liis arrest. The prosecutor said that Turmel had given contradictory explanations to account for the Swiss banknotes to tho value of -£1000 found in his cupboard in tho Chamber of Deputies.! DYNAMITE "SHE" IN ITALY NEST OF CONSPIRATORS CLEANED OUT. v Rome, October 10. As the result of a court-martial in connection with the blowing up of a dynamite factory at Cengio, SergeantMajor Renatti (or Benatti) has been sentenced to imprisonment for lite. His wifo was acquitted. His father-in-law and two hotel porters have been sentenced to death and another accused, Drovandi, to imprisonment for twenty years.—Aus.JSI.Z. Cable Assn. . [A court-martial was opened m beptember in connection with the blowing up of a dynamite factory at Cenigo in February, 1916,. resulting in a terrible death-Mill, and a series o£ vast incendiary outbreaks at Genoa in December, 1915, and February, 191 H. The defendants were also charged with giving information, to the Austiiaus.]