A GIRL SPY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1924, Page 5

A GIRL SPY.

LIFE GIVEN TO GERMANY.

TRAPPED BY THE FRENCH

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received March 9, 5.5. p.m.

Paris, March 7.

The sale of jewels and other relies of Matahari led the Chief of Police to reveal the story of the dancer spy’s arrest and execution at Viencenne* in 191 S. She was constantly under surveillance in 1915 and 19145, and eventu ally the head of the French counter espionage service called her to his office and told her she would be deported to Holland.

Matahari immediately offered to proceed as a spy to the German Crown Prince’s headquarters at Stenay. saying she was madly in love with a Russian and wanted a million frnac> to marry him. The French official promised the money, but added that «he would be shot if she failed in her mission. Matahari retorted: “In six months I shall marry my lover." She left Paris, going by way of Madrid, where she offered to sell to the German attache information she had gathered in Paris. The attache wireleased to Germany, but the French intercepted the message. They thereupon telegraphed to the French attach? in Madrid that Matahari should be sent to Paris to receive money at a Parisian bank. Matahari went and was promptly arrested. * Outside the bank she offered to reveal the secrets of the German spy organisation to France if her life was spared, but the offer was rejected. “Very well,” replied the dancer, “then I shall say nothing.” Her dying words were; “I love Germany, and I hate France.”