A “SPY” TRIAL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8181, 24 July 1912, Page 7

A “SPY” TRIAL

AT EDINBURGH PLANS OF NAVAL BASE AT RQSYTH. u y Telegraph—Pr«;as Association —Copyright. LONDON, July 22. . Tho trial of Arrugaard K.arl Greaves, wlio says lie is an Australian, but .speaks with, a German accent, and is charged under tho O facial Secrets Act with having on April 14th been found in the Central Station Hotel, Glasgow, in possession of a large quantity of papers and information intended to be directly or indirectly made useful to an enemy of the British Government, has opened in Edinburgh. Evidence was given that Greaves had in his possession a German telegraphic code with a key thereto, a note giving particulars of the guns under construction at B-eardmore's, three cipher telegrams, and maps of the Firth of Forth and tho Itosyth naval base.

When charged at the lower court at Glasgow on April Isih, Greaves protested that there was no evidence _ against him. Uuring a lortnight’s stay in the hotel, it was stated, ho represented himself as an Australian doctor. He was arrested bv officers in plain clothes, one of whom in the previous week spent an enjoyable evening in his company. Apparently he knew he was being watched, for it is stated that on one occasion ho remarked, “This country of yours is all upside down. lam being followed about every day.*'