Actress As Spy.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2646, 30 October 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

Actress As Spy.

CAJOLED A CORPORAL INTO STEALING A MACHINE GUN.

There has been a romantic development to the theft of a machine gym by a French corporal, an actress in a cafe ebantant having been arrested on a charge of instigating the man to the theft. The fascinating singer is said to lie a member of the German secret service, and to have corrupted several other young soldiers at Chalons-sur-Marne as she corrupted Corporal Deschamps. She would make a soldier’s acquaintance, and as soon as she had him under her influence she would begin to arouse his jealousy by telling him that he was anything but generous, and. that there were others waiting for the opportunity he did not seem_ inclined to grasp. The young soldier, afraid of losing her favor, would descend to anything to procure money, and one of the easiest ways, as the Deliali would point out, was to steal and sell military secrets. This was the procedure adopted, in DeschampS’ case. He took the mitrailleuse off its stand and conveyed it in a motor car to the frontier. Her© he told the German military authorities tiiat the package contained old iron, hut directly he was over the border line between the-two countries he drove to a police station and was at once put in communication with the German military authorities. He is now said to bo living at Metz. Although the greatest secrecy is maintained, it is known that at least half-a-dozen other soldiers at Chalonsr aro either under arrest or are under strict surveillance, all of them being known to have been friendly with the arrested eafechantant artist.