A SPY SCARE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22126, 2 December 1933, Page 11

A SPY SCARE

PREVALENT IN EUROPE! LONDON 'FULL OF AGENTS. LONDON, November 17. Spy hunting promises to become a popular sport in most of the European nations which are suffering from war tremors. London is full of branches of organisations which have been outlawed in their own countries, and harbours a small army of men and women seeking to penetrate naval and military secrets. Such men are constantly being detected in their nefarious practicel/and deported without public action being taken. , Nearly every European capital has been excited recently by the discovery of espionage. Since France completed her eastern frontier, with its echelon of forts, dozens of foreigners, the majority being German fanatics, have been captured wandering about with tiny cameras, studying the whole terrain. The result has been that suspicious characters now are arrested on sight, and not released until they have proved their bona fides. The most dramatic case recently was that of a young Frenchman, who. during his term of military service, photographed the French alpine fortifications, sold the photographs to Italians at Turin for 20,000 lire, and afterwards sought admission to the French counter-espion-age service. This was granted, and the authorities in Paris were able finally to convict him of selling to adjoining countries false information purposely placed in his possession.