SELLING U-BOAT SECRETS
The German Government recently or- ■ de red the arrest, which has -bean effected, of a number of ex-naval officers, against whom charges of high will be brought. Not long ago the naval authorlttos learned that, an ex-naval lieutenant named von Bercken, was engaged in suspicious transactions with foreigners. He was shadowed, and it was found that no had a number of confederate®, the nbjixrt of the gang being to sell German submarine secrets to foreign Powers. In some way von Bercken ana his comrades became possessed of numerous secret documents TSgUTding U-boats and U-boat warfare, and st was these they were negotiating to dispose of at a high figure. Spanish and Japanese agents, it is alleged, had been in touch witn them.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 91, 11 January 1921, Page 5
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