FRENCH SPY SANG.
SOURCE OF GERMAN INFORMATION.
LONDON, March 6. 'A Paris message says that it is alleged that the principal operations of the Tremblez gang were concerned in shipping arrivals and departures. This, it is suspected, explains the activity of the German submarines off the Brittany coast.
The Petit Parisien says that Tremblez confided to a friend that his Swiss affairs earned him £160,000. Le Matin I states that a search of Tremblez's.' chateau revealed documents proving i that he had communicated with Germany. He fought the chateau some years ago. It is a beautiful mansion, near Quimperle. He lived as a gentlevman farmer with his wife and family. The neighbors state that Tremblez had few friends. TVemblez himself was noted for his mysterious. motor trips at night. None, except himself, knew the destination of the jnotor. He spent the daytime in roaming the fields and woods, accompanied only by his dogs. The Petit Parisien states that the an. thorities recently suspected that German submarines were obtaining or attempting to obtain supplies from the coast of Brittany They set a sharp watch on certain individuals. Tremblez, whose age is 38. and Suzy Dephy, a beautiful woman' of -30, born in Nor7^iandy, met Guillain during a boxing match at Dieppe six years ago. Guillain was then flourishing as manager for famous boxers. Guillain and his wife came to Paris, where the wife soon began to appear in the music halls. Latterly, Suzy had not lived with her husband. He lived in a small flat on the ground floor off the Avenue Bloquet, and she occupied an elegant flat on the fifth floor of the same building. Suzy lately bought %wo motors and £4000 worth.of jewels.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 2
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285FRENCH SPY SANG. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 30 March 1918, Page 2
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