STATE SECRETS STOLEN.
THE FRENCH, AFFAIR. PICTURESQUE CAREER. Cj Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright, v PARIS, 9th April. The newspapers state that the secret dcciunents alleged io have been removed by Maimon (said to be a Mohammedan naturalised in England) were used to make Russia believe that France v/as co operstin^ wich Great Britain against j Russian interests. It is stated in various quarters that Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary, was offered the documents, and informed M. Pichon, the French Foreign Minister, of the fact. A London newspaper was similarly offered the papers, also warned M. Pichcn. Maimon is said to have had a picturesque career. He was born in Syria, and served Abdul Haraid, the deposed Sultan of Turkey, for many years as a spy. He is said to have obtained the concession for the Bagdad railway, and is also susI peeled of the disclosure of the tenor of the recent Russo-German proposals discussed by the two Emperors at Potsdam. Routet (a cleric in the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs) abstracted the papers, and Pallier (Maimon's secretary) copied them and then returned, them to i Routet.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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187STATE SECRETS STOLEN. Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 84, 10 April 1911, Page 7
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