PLOT IN HOLLAND
THEFT OF DEFENCE MAPS
AUTHORITIES ACT QUICKLY
< MILITARY MEN ARRESTED,
(UNITED PRESS ASSUCUTION. COPIRIUBr.)
(PUBLISHED IN IBC T111E1)
(Received 24th November, noon.) LONDON, 23rd November
The Hague correspondent of "The Times"'says that a sensation has been caused in Holland by the discovery of an extensive plot against the Dutch State. The military authorities discovered that maps and documents relating to theDutch defence system were being sold to foreign countries.
Measures were speedily taken to have false plans issued with the object of catching the sellers. To-day a Belgian was arrepted at Bar-le-Duc in the act of buying 6ecret military plans from a Dutch officer. The "arrests of four other officers followed in various townr, of Holland.
The plotters are believed to have worked from Rotterdam, where tha leader also was arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7
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134PLOT IN HOLLAND Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7
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