ROSENBERG THE SPY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 112, 15 May 1918, Page 4

ROSENBERG THE SPY.

LAST-MINUTE ToRTUNE MADE » ON - All IS BOURSE. I The recent arrest in Paris of Suzy Depsy, the actress, and her husband I and hTs associates is gradually bring- ! in[r to light the workings of a spy } agency in Switzerland conducted on ! behalf of Germany by the Austrians '■ Rosenberg and Bettelheim the 5 Daily Mail's Paris correspondent). The \ names of these two ex-Parisians crop

[ up sooner or later in every treason in- \ vestigatiori in France. 8010 was in j toucn with their Zurich "information [ bureau," and if the cases were not sub ■ judice it would be easy to mention half : a dozen persons now in the 'Sante I Priso n who had dealings with them. Both Rosenberg and Bettelheim remained in Pains till the last moment before the war, and the latter knew so well what was about to happen that he gradualiy_r emo ved the furniture from his , fashionable flat during the last days of I Ju'ly, 1914. Once safely across th e frontier Rosen- ' berg, the typical German business mao 1 and' banker spy, who in the last days i before, the war snatched a fortune on the Parfs Bourse by "bearing" French | Government stocks, speedily opened- his j -wholesale tre'asou factory at Zurich. ; Rosenberg it was who acted' as a diI rect link on neutral territory between i the German spy masters in Berlin and : the Kaiser's agents in Allied countries. |He was i n close touch wit'll Erzberger, | the Germain 'Catholic leader, and with t Efohenlohe, who has been dubbed the ! chief pay-master of Boloism. Later j JJosenfcerg paid regular fortnightly J visits to-the German Army HeadquartI ers to deliver information and receive fresh instructions. His partner Bet- | telheim belonged to the affable mnn-of-thc-woi'ldl type of spy. It .-was- his business to 'recruit agents . among the r.osmopolitan society of Swiss resorts and to smooth the path of woukl-be traitors who wanted to open up relations with-the enemy. Until quite re- | cently these treason brokers Tiad an(other wealthy Austrian in France as I their agent and look-out man. This ad- | venturer passed as a. Belgian and would [ pivliably be stil'l at large if he had not | been imprudent enough to begin legal { proceedings to make the bnnk in winch | was interested disgoige the j money he had deposited f'cf'u-e tl:<\ j war. ' The Zurich gang promptly caus- [ ed his real identity' to be revealod to } the Fr<-nch authorities, and h» is now j tinder arrest Jiargf.u with trafficking { witii the enemy. His case is closely | connected with the Suzy Depsy affair i '