ALLEGED SPY GANG

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 October 1933, Page 7

ALLEGED SPY GANG

“MARIE LOUISE" ARRESTED

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HELSINGFORS, October 27.

By a strange coincidence, the Marie Louise espionage case developed following the strange disappearance across the Russian border of a Finnish officer, Lieutenant Pentikainen, who is alleged to have absconded with im portant documents. The counter-espion-age police have arrested Marie Louise Martin on suspicion of being the head of a gang divulging military secrets to Russia. An American teacher has also been arrested. The police suspect that Martin’s Canadian passport is a forgery. She speaks poor English, but fluent German.

ATTRACTIVE AND WEALTHY

LONDON, October 28

Mr. McGovern, M.P., claims to have established beyond doubt the identity of “Marie Louise” as Olgu Israel, an attractive twenty-three years old Jewess. She is living with her wealthy parents in Berlin. She had an “affair” with Lieutenant Baillie Stewart, but it was not in any way connected with the court martial.

WOMAN’S DENIAL. (Recd. October 30, 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. The “Sunday Express’s” Berlin correspondent interviewed Olgo Israel, who flatly denies Mr McGovern’s allegation that she is Marie Louise: “1 am supposed to be like her,” she said. “That’s all. It’s terrible that I should be singled out. I never saw Baillie Stewart in my life.” It has been twice reported that Mario Louise died, once in Switzerland and once in Holland.