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THE MISPOT TROUBLE
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1920.
London, Sept. 9.
FAMOUS WOMAN SPY DIES INSANE.
SENSATIONAL WAR TRIAL RECALLED.
The death has occurred in the Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, writes # Daily Chronicle representative, of Lizzie Wertheim, one of Germany's most famous woman spies, who was trapped by the British Secret Service five years ago.
a number of A War Ofce Mesopotamia Communique carers
1t mentions that on the Lower minar operations in various areas Euphrates aeroplanes, reconnoltring over Samawah, were heavily fred on and replied with machine guns. They succeeded in dropping medical supplies and money for the garrison, also rations for the
After a sensational trial at the véssel Greendy, which is isolated. Satisfactory recounts have been received of the behaviour of the Arab levies and police employed Central Criminal Court in Septem- under British officers, especially in Hella, where they carried out ber, 1915, she was sentenced to enterprising and gallant work at heavy lasa despite every temptation ten years penal servitude for and appeal to tribal, family and religious feelings.
of the collecting information movements of the British Fleet. Londan, Sept. 11,
Her confederate, a young Ger- The War Once announces that a strong column of Indian cavalry, artillery and infantry, under Brigadier Conyngham, which left Bakuba, man officer named Rowlands, was north-east of Baghdad, en sth inst., to operate in a north-easterly also found guilty, and was shot in Lizzie Wertheim was one of direction along the Persian railway, reached Abuhawa, twelve miles the Tower of London,
most dangerous from Bakuba, without opposition. Another column is covering the lines of communication. A column commanded by Lieut.-Col. Greer Germany's set out from Kizil Rabat on 5th Sept., with the object of operating in agents, and, with Rowlands made a south-westerly direction towards the first-mentioned column. The a desperate attempt to bring off two columns are converging on Shahraban, where Capt. Buchanan and one of the most sensational coups
SPIES AT NAVAL PORTS. his wife were taken prisoner. The object of this double expedition is
Her headquarters was a small to clear the railway into Persia and bring Kerind, the Persian camp where British women and children are, into touch with Bagdad again at in West London, from where Incidentally it should rescue Mrs. Buchanan and her companions the two spies made frequent Bakuba was in rebel hands a fortnight age. The Government has journess by motor to Rosyth and accepted the generous offer of the Maharaja of Kapurthala to place other ports, to obtain news of the the Kapurthala infantry at the disposal of the General Oter Commovements of the Grand fleet by manding in Mesopotamia for service there. The unit is accordingly mixing with the crews of various
battleships. sailing from ladia shortly.
Bagdad, Sept. 11,
of the wat
A great deal ofioformation was On the 9th Sept, a column arrived at Shahraban and occupied the collected by the pair, bat before town without incident. Mrs. Buchanan and some lodian prisoners Rowlands could lease the country were released. On the night of the 11th September insurgents made to transmit it to GërmaDy he and unsuccessful attempts to cut the wires and rish pickets at Samawa.his partner were arrested by
Scotland Yard detectives. The situation is unchanged elsewhere.
AUSTRALIAN PREPAREDNESS.
SECRET RAID ON HER FLAT. For some time the Secret Ser- vice had been aware of the plot.
It was discovered that letters. were being sent to Wertheim by? a person who was under suspi-i rion, and when her flat was
criminating secretly raided a number of in-
found.
document
were
WES
Melbourne, Sept. 10. In the House of Representatives Mr. Hughes. Prime Minister, made a statement on the Government's defence policy. He declared
Close watch was kept on her that the most vital part of Australian policy was the preservation of Australia for Europeans. Australians' responsibility had bean-in- creased by membership of the League of Nations. After reference movements, her correspondence to the populations of 750,000,000 to the northward and north-west of as "tapped" and so were ber Australia, he said the defence of the New Territories in the Pacific telephone messages. It was a serious problem. 1: was obvious that national safety required oticed that she was frequently Clever AS she was. Lizzie Australia to take a serious share in the naval responsibilities of the in the rompany of young officers. Empire. Mosey would be provided to remedy the deficiencies in Wertheim was no match for our Secret Service. On several hearr artillery and ammunition, also for light guns. The training] of sixteen thousand boys yearly on reaching the age of eighteen would occasions she gave herself away. be resumed. Battleships were still the mainstay of naval defence and before very long the author- but circumstances compelled the Commonwealth to at present dependities were in possession of full de- on light cruisers and smaller craft. He hoped for ap imperial Naval ails of her plans for collecting
Scheme in which all Dominiona would co-operate. An Air Force was being established under the control of a Board on which the Navy information about the fleet. and Army were represented. Six hundred thousand sterling would be allotted for aviation, including civil and commercial branches. Civil aviation would be encouraged to the utmost. Naval expenditure included £700,000 fer transports.
NEW INDIAN ASSEMBLY.
London, Sept. 9.
ALWAYS SMARTLY DRESSED, Born in Poland in 1382. Wertheim was the daughter of a naturalised German subjeer. An accomplished worian and a elever linguist, she dressed well and! patronised the best restaurants-in London.
She deblad in espionage for many years, bas it wasonly after! her association with Rowlands :bat she became involved in real-
Mr. Alexander Frederick Whyte has been appointed first Pre-115 serious plots.
At her at it was considered sident of the Legislative Assembly shortly being constituted in India | WHY THE JURY HAD MERCY. under the Reform Act
- Mr. A. F. Whyte M.A.. M.P., has been editor of "The New Europe"¡by the jury that she had been she therefore since 1917. He was Lecteur Aujoint at the Sorbonne 1905-6, was acting under the influence of appointed Special Commissioner on Industrial Insurance, Vieens and Rowlands, and Budapest 1905. and in 1910 entered Parliament as Liberal member escaped with a sentence of ten for Perth City. He saw war service as Lieut. RNVR. He is on years' imprisonment, and was sent to the Aylesbury Convict Gaol. rears old.
COMMUNISTS AT LOGGERHEADS.
Helsingfors, Sept. 9.
The execution of Rowlands, who completely! broke down before the firing party. greatly affected her. Her health suffer ed so much that in 1918 ber mind Kave way, and she was removed to the Broadmoor Asylum.
LOWER DECK DEMANDS.
The recent Communist friction at Petrograd developed into a critical situation at a meeting of the Central Committee of the Finnish Communists at Petrograd on the 31st August, when the opposition group, consisting of officers of the Red Army, appeared on the scene and an altercation brought about a climax resulting in¦ADMIRALTY REFUSE ALL between ten and twenty Finnish Communists being killed and wounded.
THE BRESLAU INCIDENT.
Paris, Sept. 9.
The German Government has paid one bandred thousand francs to indemnity the personnel of the looted French Consulate Breslau-Haves.
FRANCE'S CLAIMS AND AIMS.
Paris, Sept. 9.
EXCEPT TWO.
Delegates to the inter-port lower deck conference at Devon- port recently interviewed regard-] ing the decision of the Admiralty on recommendations sent by the Welfare Committee, expressed the keenest regret that only two recommendations out of 278 bad
at been granted. The requests con- ceded are an allowance of neat rum to petty afficers and the permission to wear black gaiters on conditions.
Delegates were sogry at what is regarded as a serious sat-back to a perfectly loyal movement designed to maintain satisfactory relations between the Admiralty 31. Millerand visited the cities of Worms and Landau. In a
and the lower deck and to obviate speech at Mayence yesterday, he said that the pitiful scenery of France's devastated districts shows that the French demands for men becoming entangled with
the trades unions. compensation are neither unjust nor exorbitant. The French oc- The Welfare Committee is a cupation of the Phine. in agreement with the Allies, is for the purpose body of officers appointed by the of securing satisfaction of just claims. France's one aim is to in-admiralty and augmented by augurate a reign of peace.--Havas.
CHANNEL SWIMMER FAILS,
London, Sept. 10.
The American, Henry Sullivan, just failed to swim the Channel from Dover. He was compelled to give up when within 21⁄2 miles of pains in the stomach,
advisory members from the lower deck, and among their more: important recommendations now thrown over by the Admiralty are the establishment of "port welfare committees, appeala in reference to pay, pensions for widows, and compassionate allowances for children, conveg ance of men's wives abroad when
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