DENOUNCED AS A SPY.
A CHARGE OF FRAUD. STORY OF A CLEVER GERMAN. LONDON. June 38. In order to obtain more information as to the career of Liebrand, a supposed German spy, London lawyers will at- » tend his trial at Aschaffenburg (Bavaria) on a charge of obtaining goods by fraud. "Possibly Germany's cleverest spy," was the official British opinion of Liebrand, who was interned in England during the war, although the German Government officially denied that he had been so employed. Liebrand lived in a rented house in. Fel|xstowe, Suffolk, where,, under the pretence of fishing, he sedulously took soundings in search for the Admiralty's secret uncharted channel. 1 Ha often burned powerful lights on the cliffs., ,--j When about to obtain from the Felix-,. ~ stowe municipality control of Lts electric , light and power supplies, and permission to construct a. light railway on the Suffolk coast, which would have been invaluable to an invading army, he was dra- • matically denounced, in open council, as a spy by a councillor who had watched hit for years.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 9
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175DENOUNCED AS A SPY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19676, 30 June 1927, Page 9
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