STOLEN STATE SECRETS
AN INTERNATIONAL MIS-CHIEF-MAKER. PRESS ASjWIA;:o.x. < UPY.H II 1. Paris. April 9. The newspapers state that the removed documents were used to make Russia believe that France was co-operating with Great Britain against Russian interests. It is variously stated that Sir Edward Grey was oiiered the documents and informed M. Fiction and that a London newspaper was similarly offered them and also warned M. Pichon. Maimon has had a picturesque career. He was born in Syria and served Abdul Hamid for many years as spy. He obtained the concession of the Bagdad railway, and is suspected of the disclosure of the tenor of the: Russo-German Potsdam proposals. Rouet abstracted papers, while Pallier copied the documents and returned them to Rouet. OTHERS IMPLICATED. (Received 10, 8.35 a.m.) Faris, April 9. At the trial of Maimon, Rouet and Pallier were charged with removing documents from the Foreign Office. The magistrate produced ten copies of documents seized at Maimon’s residence, relating to the Bagdad railway. Rouet admitted that he communicated four of them.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 100, 10 April 1911, Page 1
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