CHARGED WITH ESPIONAGE
DOCKYARD FITTER ARRESTED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright London, June 2. Samuel Maddick, an electrical fitter at Portsmouth dockyard, has been charged with espionage. A detective said that when arrested, the accused admitted tlmt he was shortly going to Ostend to meet the agent of a foreign Power, but denied that he possessed secret information. A FLIMSY CHARGE. ' Berlin, June 2. Mackenzie, a Johannesburg builder. 1 nas arretted on a charge of espionage 1 near Dortmund, but was immediately released. A gendarme explained that he arrested Mackenzie, suspecting him of espionage because he was a Britisher.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 14, 4 June 1914, Page 5
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