ALLEGED GERMAN SPY.

West Coast Times, 7 February 1916, Page 1

ALLEGED GERMAN SPY.

HOW THI-1 SUSPECT AVAS ARREST ED.

(By Telegraph.—Per Press Association.)

AVEI.LINGTON, February 1

When the amumneempiit was made in tlio Anti-German League's rooms this evening that a suspected spy had been arrested, there was great excitement among the members present.One of those who heard the nows with im terest was Madame llneul vc, who subsequently related to a reporter many details of importance. As a Frenchwoman, Madame Hoenfvc enjoyed exceptional facilities for obtaining information from the French Reservists who have just boon visiting YYolingtm “As soon as I heard of tho arrest,’ 1 ’ she said. “I went straight down to the steamer. There I interviewed the French reservists, and obtained from them the following story : Tho man they saiil was one of the first persons to go on hoard the Maitai when they arrived by her last Sunday. Ho took to them and accompanied them whercever they wcnt.lneidently he asked them all sorts of questions., and in a quiet way sought to discover as much as he I could about them. It was however] noticed they he spoke French with a | strong German accent, and they became suspicions of him and his apparent friendship. Still they made no sign and in a way led him on still' further. T/0-uigh tod tho boat when they were all together, he said to them, “Have you any naturalised Gor mans among you?’ Thinking to put him to the test, one of the reservists replied “Yes, I am a naturalised German.” The reservist at once found his hand seized and wrung with effusion by his kindly friend. Thereupon several others announced that they also wore naturalised Germans, and every one of them was shaken by the hand alul greeted most demonstratively. This however proved to he altogether too much for tbs reservists, whoso anger had been steadily rising, They became most excited and then there was trouble. They crowded ia upon the man, and heat him and kicked him till others on the ship had to intervene. Had he not boon taken away ho would probably have been thrown into the harbour so angry were tho reservists, but his removal saved him from harm. Madame Boeufye added that when she told the reservists later on that she was a vice-president of the antiGerman League, they said they were proud that a Frenchwoman held such a position. At her behest they joined iii shouts of “Vive la Franco!” and “Down with the Kaiser!” and she left them singing "It’s a long, long way to Tipperary.”