SPIES IN FRANCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12527, 12 April 1935, Page 5

SPIES IN FRANCE

EX-AUSTRIAN OFFICER ARRESTED

ALLEGED confession

WOMAN DETAINED AT BREST

ri.l’.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON. April 10. The Times’s Paris correspondent says that a widespread plot is believed to have been unmasked by the capture of an alleged German spy named Bernliuber, who allegedly confessed that he was an ex-Austrian officer attempting to discover French political activities, including the secrets of the recent Scluu'chnigg conversations in London and Paris, and the Paris activities of the Austrian monarchist'.?. A truncheon, a revolver, and a miniature tear-gas pistol disguised as a fountain pen, wore iound In i3ernhuber’s rooms, where he- lived with an Italian dancing girl, who declared that lie spoke eight languages. ' Tile arrest follows an allegation of workmen bulking a strategically important bridge across the Seine at Rouen that he mined one of the pilars, and also follows the arrest of Lydia Oswald, at Brest, who is accused of attempting to secure secrets from a naval officer. She cla'ins that she refused to continue the espionage became she fell in love with him ARRESTED THREE WEEKS AGO. FACT ONLY NOW REVEALEU. fU.P.A. by Elec. Tol. Couvright) (Reed April 11,. 7.66 p.m.) LONDON, April 11. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says the fact that the German, Edward Berhhubef, arrested on suspicion of spying three weeks’ ago is only new revealed, also the fact' that he confessed 1 , during th e .magistrate’s investigation that he was a member of 'Germany’s espionages system. An Italian dancer, friendly with Bernliuber says the man called himself an Austrian barouy lived in luxury, and spoke four, languages. The Telegraph adds that rnor'o avrests are expected shortly.