DARING SPY?

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 81, 4 March 1938, Page 7

DARING SPY?

IN A 1 AG I NOT LINE. Received Alarch 4, 11.25 a.in. BRUSSELS, Alarch 3. France and Belgium are very worried over the exploit of a young German “deserter,” who crossed -the French frontier driving a light tank several days ago. He said lie wished to leave Germany at any cost. He secured the tank at’night and drove over 60 miles. The News-Chronicle’s Brussels correspondent says that the authorities have good reason to believe that be is ntft a deserter, but a daring spy whose purpose was to find out whether the famous Alaginot Line could be penetrated. The Belgian General Staff are puzzled as to how he could steal the tank from the barracks without the alarm immediately being given, and how lie could drive across Germany undiallenged and finally elude the vigilance of the German frontier guards. The Daily Sketch’s Paris correspondent says what is disturbing the French authorities is that the “deserter’ appears to have known the secret passages between tbe net of wire and vertical steel posts covering “No Alan’s Land” between tbe frontier and the steel and concrete Alaginot fortifications.