THEFT OF ARMY SECRETS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10240, 1 September 1909, Page 4

THEFT OF ARMY SECRETS.

PLANS OF GL~N SOLD

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received September 1, at 8.55 a.m. London, August 31. A corporal has disappeared from the hrrraeks at Chalons with the plans of r. machine gun of the latest pattern. The afFair is grave, as the guii's„construction was a secret. The authorities made a great effort to capture the corporal before he was nblc to communicate the secret to a foreign Power.