HELIGOLAND ESPIONAGE.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13507, 29 August 1912, Page 7

HELIGOLAND ESPIONAGE.

Leopold Eilors, a Heligolandbr, and his .fiances, jOlga Kling, were recently convicted of espionage in Gormanj:. Eilers, who was born in 1880, and has boon some years in America and has "acquired American citizenship, was charged with attempting to procure plans of "the fortifications of Heligoland in 1911, with the intention of communicating them to the British'authorities. The proceedings were secret.

The evidence showed that Eilors made the acquaintance of a. foreigner in Heligoland, to whom he promised to deliver secret information. He had prepared two drawings of the island, which he was to sell to the foreigner for £5, but he was arrested before they wore transferred. Olga Kling was arrested because she know of the existence- of the drawings, which Eilers kept in her mother's house.

: The Court found Eilers guilty of an attempted offence in contravention of .paragraph 3 of the- espionage law, and sentenced him to four years' penal servitude and six years' loss of civil rights. Olga Kling was convicted of failing to give inforamtion against Eilers, and was sentenced to six months'.imprisonment.