A BOGUS SPY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 1514, 9 November 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BOGUS SPY.

ARTFUL SWINDLER ■. DUPED great POWERS. -M What must bo ranked as one of thb,j|M|S| original frauds on record is that'.fay;. a bogus spy is alleged to have sold 'iakclg plans to three great European PowMjlS Entails of the affair are published in German press. A man named bought a. few! German military handbooimlS ordnance maps, and time tables relating to the ..German provinces near the Freqidjfll frontier, and although he bad nev®|l served in the army succeeded, with aid of these, in concocting a mobilisation plan of the German Army, to be tued; is the event of war breaking out vri||||j France. He added elaborate notes, invented a secret cipher, and thciv.|i}^|M ing the whole document in covers inscribed on the outside . aetfiltifl mysterious titles, which made them appte||||g to belong to the General Staff or 't}t®||| German Army,. : -'Glitch.forgeries ta tho; general i aff of the Army, dating, them fjpoa Berlin, , aiwp&j||| plaining that bo was acting for his. sin, who was a German, officer in firito£M||| difficulties. His cousin, he «aid.ftli«HH| discharge a debt of honour in • four 'd&ftillig and therefore ho had taken the 1 HdCftmM documents from the safe oi the staff in order to raise some money them. Failing this he had commit suicide. The documented added, must be replaced within 4fl 'hourffifl In due course the plans came back ItiWajspjl banknotes to the value of £200 and' i 4?'Bm||J quest for more. With this Glitch forged similar docunisnt? lor r -'t|iffii Um of Russia, and ■ those - were rJinKHiil§ra| to him with the sum of £200. Giits|il then worked out a secret plan of a 1 threg|!& front mobilisation against Russia, and England to which he appended ;sp§§J| name of General von Atoltko, and this' document to three French in Basle, who gave him £80) and ife-I' mised him £4000 if some special document mentioned in . the nlqo.;VwM|]i| ; forthcoming. It; is alleged that he; $<4l|| similar to. Russia and England*; !, aeggggsig 's!§ilil