DWINDLING GERMAN SHIPPING.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13245, 29 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

DWINDLING GERMAN SHIPPING.

\ ihamati smi> «•!' '-;'■• "■'■-'■ w ' ;| - '■'■■ x, ai ,i i.\ tli ■ Altnnie; ( : ' ,; ' i'a! in lenlvin.; 1.. .1 '.|!ie<ti..n rni.-etl In Mr l'ivv< 'van ... ~i 1 ■ late Hi .111 Km,. ii.dl\' niliMl. liaa.li! 1 ul a |i:n I i i.umU'V . ~;!!, sua::." w la. had been as-ie-ted ai.-i ij ~ed in mi inteinli't'in . ami.. Ii i- ... n.etly Inn thai she is a liii- ;;-:, Mil-ij.v: ami ii'M ii! eiieniv 01 ij.lll. li'it »in v ii);K : ) Hi ■ Iwi* I '■>' n the intiinatfl hielld ~1 a per .vli.-i 'x;:- i^M.eiattHl ,-.ii'.i >i<liti..n.s tiimeii:i'als and with ati..•nii.is at iiss.i.<.-ini; ;•)!:. She \;as an inlimale iiiend. n I'lli-t i,ei.- 11 li»* 1 iruiii Kimldixl at the ' ,•- .-a.ii.'j of the war. Up went to Dalai. ...-i has .-;:]. ••■ then been ernplu\wl ;:.s an _.ii ~; the enomy in P.erlin. to the cer-•;--in l.aie.vleiiui' of our authorities. He is ! ia:,i of a pavticiilaily dantjerous and .i! : kind. 1 don't .say moie for ohvious

"l-rom time to tinn- lie lias K-ft Reulm Mil '.isitiil neutral countries fur the pur- ...-,■ o:' arranging mwtip.'ji ß with people i this country, with whom hi' found it onxenieni or profitable to continue his f! it ions, it was di?i o\ ei; % d that this . ~uKiii went to Switzerland to meet thi> ..iiipii spy. who had left Berlin for til* eirpime. and she stayed in iho same hotel with him for several .days. She has idmiUcd she was told h\ this niim that •;,■ was in lie employ of the German jnvorimient and had aij office in Berlin. She. >ftuiiu-.-I from that meeting carrying to Kngland a n essa<;e from him to one of his pro. ed .ieMiiioli.es in this country. When she was arrested literature of an extremely seditions character advocating in the plainest possible manner and murder was found in her possession." Mr Trevelymf said he never suggested that the woman was innocent, but wanted to loiow whv. chc could not have a legal triil. Concluding, Sir F. K. Smith averted that no case had been brought forward which deserved a vestige of sympathy from the Tlouse of Commons. After furtb'T discussion a motion by Mir- Trevelyan was negatived without a division. "The Germans are undoubtedly ins very nervous about the con»irv; commercial war, says the "Times" '■' Amsterdam correspondent. "They have been ouniinp on their sbjpe in neutral ports as a great asset after the conclusion oi peace, as they would enable them to-im-port huge supplies, while the merchantmen of the Entente? Powers, and particnlarly tbo«e of Great Britain, were largely engaged for a long time in the rcpatriatiuf of soldiers, and carrying. supplier to soldiers, as long as aiay reinained abroad, sh'rw in her porta 4*prive|,Ger»»an« qi