ALLEGED ESPIONAGE

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 29, 3 January 1927, Page 7

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE

ARREST OF A GERMAN. ' d , to - "• EMPLOYEE OF KRUPP’S. BELIEVED TO BE AGENT OF FRANCE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 3, 9.15 a.m. . BERLIN, Jan. 2. Von Luar, for many years a trusted employee of Krupp’s > locomotive department, was arrested (on a charge of espionage on behalf of ‘France. It is alleged that he attempted to commit suicide while waiting examination.—A. and N.Z. cable. NOT GIVEN CREDENCE. BY GERMAN PRESS. BERLIN, Dec. 31. The newspapers refuse to give credence to the French allegation that there is a vast network of German espionage. They,regard it as highly improbable that Vivian Stranders, who was arrested, was engaged in espionage, and state that after his association with the inter-Allied Aeronautical Control he settled in Berlin and acted as agent for various foreign aeroplane firms. . ... . The Lokalanzeiger insinuates that the whole affair was vamped up by the French. —A. and N.Z. cable.

It is asserted that a network of spying in France and Britain on behalf of Germany has been discovered, the head of which is Dr. Weber, a man ot many names and high attainments, who gives the impression of being, a rich idler, but who is really a most active man.