SPY HUNTING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 8

SPY HUNTING

ACTIVITY IN EUROPE .y j •i . *' •' FRENCH TRAITOR CAUGHT » ... • '} LONDON, Nov. 13. Spy hunting promises to become a popular sport in most of the European nations whit-li aro suffering from Avar tremors. London is fttll of branches of organisations Avhich have been outlatved in their oavu countries, and harbors a-siiiitiH army of men and women seeking to penetrate naval and military secrets. Such persons are constantly being detected in their nefarious practices, and deported Avithout 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 Avamloring about with tiny cameras, studying the whole terrain. - *- “ The result has been that suspicious characters nor are arrested on sight, and not released until they hnve proved their bona tides. - 1 In most ■ instances capable, trained military men have staffs of spies who appear to be cjuite worthy citizens or oafish rustics. Always they understand that their country will not do anything to help them in the event of their detention. The most dramatic case recently Avas that of a young Frenchman, avlio, during his term of military service, photographed the French Alpine fortifications, sold tho photographs to Italians at Turin for 20,001) lire and afterwards sought admission to The French counter-espionage 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.