FRENCH AIR SECRETS.
SOUGHT BY FOREIGN FIRMS. DISCOYERY OF THEFTS. Australia and Jf.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9,5 p.m.) PA3HS. Feb. 11. The theft of documents from an aeroplane factory, in connection with which two arrests have been made, is no€ related to the Foreign Espionage Taut is part of an organised effort by foreign aeroplane constructors to steal the secrefs of their French competitors. For some months French firms have known that their lateett improvements were being stolen, but they only discovered the source of the leakage when a draughtsman employed at the Nisuport works was recently asked to sell his firms secrets. The draughtsman pretended to agree but instead he told his firm. Thus a French engineer named Thivat, employed at the Breguet works, was arrested with Kurtz, his Russian sweetheart, who had been a typist? at the Breguet works. The arrests are likely to lead to the expulsion of many foreign undesirables, especially Russian.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18631, 12 February 1924, Page 7
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