STOLEN PLANS SOLD TO GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 9

STOLEN PLANS

SOLD TO GERMANY

TREACHERY IN ENGLAND ASSISTANCE TO BOMBERS (United Press Assn.—Elec. *el. Copyright) (Received April 20, 11.20 a.m.) •LONDON, April 19 A story of secret service agents tracking a British bricklayer to Germany, where he is alleged to have sold a vital plan of the Royal Ordnance factory in Lancashire, was unfolded in Chorley Court, where Joseph Kelly (31) was charged with the theft of two plans. Kelly, who was employed in the factory, communicated with the German Consul at Liverpool, who put him in touch with secret agents in Holland. The police found in Kelly’s house correspondence from the agents and one of the missing plans. The other would be of the greatest assistance to i enemy bombers. A bomb placed ac- , curately would cause untold havoc and : loss of life. The plan was known to * be in Kelly's possession wheg he went i to Germany. Kelly pleaded not guilty and was | committed for trial. Most Modern Factory In World The ordnance factory mentioned it at Kuxton, In Lancashire- It was opened recently at a cost of £lO,000,000 and is believed to be the most modern and most efficient in the worldit took two years to construct. The plant includes underground bomb-proof chambers. 900 buildings, fifty miles of roads, twenty-five miles of railways and thirty miles underground passages. TWO GERMANS BEHEADED MILITARY SECRETS SOLD (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Receive# April 20, 11 a.m.) BERLLN, April 19 Two men, aged 24 and 19 years respectively, were beheaded for selling . military secrets to a foreign Power.