ESPIONAGE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 15861, 26 February 1912, Page 7

ESPIONAGE.

GERMAN ARRESTED. United Press Association —By Electrio ■TolegTaph—Copyright. / LONDON, February 23. A German stoker, who is a naturalised Englishman, has been arrested for espionage at Christiania, aboard H.M.S. Foxhound, on board of which vessel he had served for eight months. He was discovered making notos in cipher, and was conveyed in L"ons to Chatham, PUBLICLY DEGRADED. A Pane message says that Corpora Descbamspfts, convicted of stealing a mitrailleuse and celling it to Germany, and who was subsequently sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, was publicly degraded at Chalons. ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE FRUSTRATED. (Received February 25, 5.5 p.m.) BERLIN, February" 24. Several newspapers state that Captain Brandon, who was recently sentenced to imprisonment for espionage, attempted to escape from the fortress in whioh, he was detained 1 . He filed through the window-bars and reached the courtyard by means of a rope, but a sentry recaptured him.