When Waris on the Way? .

NZ Truth, Issue 352, 23 March 1912, Page 8

When War is on the Way? .

One of the ' sinister . proofs .of ihe tense relations, between, Britain > aiid Germany is the. number of arrests tor espionage, that , have T taken, place recently.' Bertrand Stewart, ' a _ London solicitoi*. and -officer m thi. West yKeht ' Yeomanry, is the latest suspect:", .. Me was brought up for trial at 'the Lei paig Court, after being irt . a, . German ' gaol since last August. .Stew-art is "woll connected" ..in England,, and' is a nephew of Lady Kensington. ..He is a man of means, and when alrrested hai £'12j000 .m his possession. The easo: is being 'f f . „ -. .ffy .- .'*.,.'' , - y .. HEARD. IN SECRET, A ' and the defence will largely, turn hn whether certain ' information :the accused sought to' obtain was secret -or not.; The offence with which is charged carries- a. maximum penalty of ten years. The .German 'newspapers- have been 'publishing- 'elaborate "proofs" of Stewart's guilt, -and their comments are acrid. Bo'tli" nations "are keenly alert fpr espionage cases yi us I now';' as recent records- show v. Captain Trench and Lieutenant ' Brandon, tho English officers, are serving' a of four years' imprisonment /passed >m them m December,- 1910/ aridrMr Max Schultz, of- Southampton, was .sentenced to '•• •"• "' ' A- y '[f '■■.[ ■■■ 'f SEVEN" YEARS' .'IMPRISONMENT al 'Leipzig last month. ..On' the o^her hand, Phil Max .Schultz was oaitc.n'ced to twenty- one months' impri3bhhifeh£ a t N Plymouth 'hist' November"; 1-J.ein-rich Grosse, .arrested-; at Pprtsint^uth; stands committed for, trial; arid .Lieutenant- Helm, who- confessed&to -sketching forts at . Portsmouth, - was released at the Crown's, request, y. .-•