The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-17
IS ACCUSED
 OF TREASON France is Promised a Great Sensation. WILL RIVAL DREYFUS CASE Army Officer Charged With Selling
 Documents. Lieateaant Ullme, Jew, isNsaid to Have Negotiated With Kaiser's
 Government fer Import- ant Papers.
BY HENRI DUBOIS.

Paris, Nov. 1s.--Secret documents o.
 the greatest importance stolen from
 the archives of the French Navy De- paFtment are it Is feared, in the pos-
 session Of the Kaiser's Government
 through the treason of Benjamin Uli-
 mo, commander Of torpedo boat be- longing to ihe Mediterranean sauadron. who has just been arrested and who ascrfbes his downfall to opium smok s ing, the vise which has incapacitated so maay French officers in the navy. The affair which promises to be as sensational as the Dreyfus case has stirred up a terrible sensation here, and may cause another outbreak of anti-Semftism, as Ullmo, like Dreyfus, is a Jew.
 The accused traitor, who is said to have made confession, is 25 years old
 and until a few weeks ago was con
 sidered a loyal and promising officer.
 Recently he had lived very extrava-
 gantly at Toulon with a young woman
 known as La Belle Lison." During the last week of September | the French Minister of Marine receiv- ed an anonymous letter mailed from Toi,lon The writer stated that he had
 in his possession valuable secret doc- uments which he was ready to sell to
 the Government for 1so, 900 francs. One of these was the key to secret naval correspondence and signalling. When no notice was taken of the let- ter, second one, containing photo graphs of some of the documents, was | received by the Minister, advising him l that unless the money was forthcom- 1 ing the original documents would be sold to- Germany.
 | The letters were then turned over I to sthe Secret Service. and one of the 1 cieverest detectives of the Department M. Sebiile. soon discovered the ident- ! ity of the writer and he began making | friends with him. They became quite intimate and obtained valuable proof
 of the double life Ullmo had been | leading.
 He confided to his new friends that | the extravaganza of ''La Belle Lison" had ruined him but added that he ex- peeted soon to make fortune from | an invention.
 When everything was ready an emis- 1 sary from the Government arranged to meet UIlmo in . lonely place near I Toulon and hand him over the money 1 in return for the documents. The emissary specially hired for the occasion was Ia well known professor | of boxing, and when the two met he felled Ullmo with a vicious swing to | the jaw, whereupon detectives appear 1 ed from all sides and had the lieuten- ant handcuffed before he came to again.
 The documents recovered concern thu general coast defenses of France. thu defense of the Port of Toulon, and al the books concerning the manoeuvrei of torpedo boats and submarines and
 the establishment of beacons and buoys
 in time of war.
 In war time all buoys in or near the
 harbor are taken away and in Ullmo's
 possession was a complete list of secret
 instruction how to get into the har-
 bor which would be invaluable to for
 eign power at war with France.
 All the documents had been stolen
 from the naval archives, and the most
 serious part of the affair is that not all
 that have been stolen have been recov-
 cred, and it Is feared that the missing
 ones have been sold to Germany, though
 JJllmo swears that he has not sold any
 or even meant to do so, in case the
 government would have ignored his
 letters.