ESPIONAGE IN FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14539, 17 October 1917, Page 5

ESPIONAGE IN FRANCE.

EXECUTION OF MATAHARI. . : BETRAYAL OF THE TANKS. \ INFATUATED BRITISH OFFICER, j (United Service.) j

(Received Oct. 16, 8 p.m.) Paris, Oct. 15. Matahari, the beautiful Dutch dancer, was shot this morning for espionage. She betrayed the tanks to Germany preceding the battle of the S'omme. While fulfilling a dancing engagement in Paris she fascinated an English officer wearing the dragon badge of tbe Tanks Corps. They were frequently • seen together in cafes. In May, 1916, I she applied for a permit to visit a certain port, stating that her fiancee, a British officer, was wounded, and sho ' wished to marry him before he died, j She arrived there simultaneously with I the first batch of tanks from England, i She stayed for a week, having the free; run of the port. . ; A month later she returned to Paris ' and obtained a passport for San- Rebas>- ' tian, in Spain, where she was iseen in company with a suspected German agent. ' . \ During the Somme offensive the tanks Were opposed! by a hew "German gun expressly made for service against tanks. German prisoners admitted that! the tanks wero betrayed. I