It was also shown that Marthe Moreuil frequently attended avia~ tion meetings and cultivated th society of young army airmen, She was reported to be on her way to Paris from St Raphael, t principal air station of the Mediterranean fleet. Arrested on arriving, in Paris, she made a confession of her spying activities, adding thet the had read of Wiet's arrest in the newspapers, whereupon she immediately destroyed all her! papers. She said that her lover. William Fischer, a naturalized British subject of Polish _birth, introduced her to a man named Gerard, who engaged her to spy fon the French air services and sent her on missions to St Nazaire, Strasburg and the south of France, The police found that Fischer was employed as packer at a wireless apparatus in the Rue de Suréne, Paris, managed by an Englishman ramed Leather, who had another Englishman named Philips as assistant, Fischer admitted his with Marthe Moreuil, but Les und Philips denied any knowledge of her. As they were formerly in the employ of the British Intelligence Department, their case was considered sufficiently "suspicious to justify their arrest, and men were taken to the lock-up ant detained. So far, there is no prov: that the two principals had anything to do with Marthe Moreuil or that they attempted to collect information, but the French newspapers do not hesitate to denounce them as spies and to make sareasti references to the "Locarno conveniently ignoring the fact that every army has" its secret. service: or intelligence department, and that it is the business of these services to find out what other armies are doing,
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