RUSSIAN OFFICER ARRESTED AS A SPY.
A somewhat exciting scene was witnessed near the Galle Face Battery at Oalombo on November 7. A Russian officer in full uniform, booted and spurred, who had arrived that morning by the Saratoff from Vladivostok, was: seen loitering about with a ea^nera, with which he was apparently snapshotting the defences. .He was promptly arrested as a spy, and sent under a military escort, to headquarters, where he was taken before Colonel, the Hon.. R. Noel, chief staff officer, and questioned. The examination elicited very little beyond the fact that the Russian officer did not understand English, and the English officer did not understand Russian. The Russian’s camera was overhauled, however, and the plates developed and examined without any incriminating results, and after a few hours' detention the Russian officer was permitted to depart. He left the headquarters office whistling blithely, and leaving behind! him the impression that he had got the better of the British officer after all.—“ Daily Express.”'
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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 12
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