ESPIONAGE.
THE STEWART EPISODE
INFORMER'S STATEMENT
(Received Feb. 15, 1.18 p.m.)
BERLIN, Feb. 14.
The newspaper "Hamburger Nachrichten" interviewed Verru, the spy informer, who stated that he joined the British Espionage bureau in 1908, at the request of the director of the brewery, who Ve.ta represented on the Continent. The War Office paid him £250 annually.
When the brewery discharged Verru in 1910 he join»u the German CounterEspionage Service, continuing his relations with the British.
Stewart introduced himself as from the War Office. He was disguised, called himself Martin, and stated that he intended to go to Germany as a traveller in patent bottle stoppers.
j Verru accordingly felt it his duty to guard Germany against systematic British espionage. Germany, moreover, paid for Vp's services better. A sv/nnn of detectives had fol-Vvc-'d li'm si'ir-,. August, trying to kidnap h'm in an automobile.
CABLEGRAMS.
By Electric Telegraph.—Press Asso-
ciation. — Copyright.
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Northern Advocate, 15 February 1912, Page 5
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