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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 61, 1 November 1887, Page 3

The Soir announces that the gendarmes at Bauge, in the Maine-et-Loire, recently succeeded in laying hands on a real German spy. At the moment of his arrest the man slipped a piece of paper into his mouth and tried to swallow it. It was, however, recovered from him piecemeal. Put together again, the paper was found to contain, finely written, a description of places in the neighbourhood just visited, together with dates and words in cypher. The names of some of the larger villages were marked with a cross. The man said he was a navvy, but he had white hands, and spoke French well. An Austrian passport was found upon him. A late telegram states : —The publication by Lieutenant-Colonel Noake, of Wanganui, of a pamphlet entitled “ How we may save fifty thousand pounds a year by the re-organisation of our forces,” is unfavorably commented ou, and is likely to get the writer into trouble. Mr Feldwick has already given notice to ask whether the Minister of Defence does not consider Lieutenant-Colonel Noake’s conduct a gross breach of military discipline, and of the|Volunteers regulations. ,|2