VITAL FACTORY PLAN
ALLEGED SALE TO GERMANY
BRITISH BRICKLAYER IN
COURT
(Received April 20, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, April 19.
A story of how secret service agents tracked a British bricklayer to Germany where he allegedly sold a vital plan of the Royal Ordnance Factory, Lancashire, was unfolded in the Chorley Court. Joseph Kelly, aged 31, was charged with the theft of two plans.
Kelly was employed at the factory and communicated with the German Consul in Liverpool, who put him in touch with secret agents in Holland. The police found in Kelly's house correspondence from agents and one of the missing. plans. The other would be of the greatest assistance to enemy bombers as a bomb placed accurately could cause untold havoc and loss ot life. It was known to be in Kelly't possession when he went to Germany. Kelly pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial.
COST £10,000,000
MOST EFFICIENT IN WORLD
(Independent Cable Service.) (Received April 20, 11.30 ajn.)
LONDON, April 19,
The ordnance factory mentioned in the Kelly case is at Euxton, Lancashire, and was recently opened. It cost £10,000,000 and is believed to be the most modern and most efficient in tha world. It took two years to construct.
The plant includes underground bomb-proof chambers, 900 buildings, 50 miles of roads, 258 miles of railways, and 30 miles of underground passages,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 9
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