The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-30

Of which Lord Ashtown is the head.
Col. Trench, late British military at
tache at Berlin, Is his cousin, and his
father Is at present in chief control
OF the engineering department Of the
London and Northwestern railway.
Defense is Arranged.
The prisoners will be defended by
DR.. Won Gordon, q prominent interna-
tional lawyer Of Berlin, and DR.. Hans
Otto of Leipzig.
The German case is that on the
night Of August 81 the lookout on the
military watch tower at Morkum no.
ticed sudden flash Of light, which
was made plain. owing to the intense
darkness OF the surroundings.
The alarm was given, and in few
minutes a brilliant searchlight was
brought into action, and its rays
showed the form Of black figure
crouchtng on the ground strictly for
hidden to civilians. The guard was
turned out. and after they had threat
ened to shoot the trespasser, Lieut..
Brandon. surrendered.
In the meantime Capt. Trench was
at his hotel In Borkum. His friend
ship with Lieut.. Brandon led the au-
thorities to make inquiries. They
visited his hotel, and carefully exam
ined his effects. but nothing suspic-
ious was found, and there. for the
time being, matters rested.
Lieut.. Brandon was taken to Elm.
den, and Capt. Trench followed him
to see It he could be of any assist
ance.
The was nothing to prevent Capt.
Tren>t rom making his escape over
he borle TO Holland. but he decided
to stand b. his friend.
He intef%t led the authorities at
Emden, and 10 v hours later, in ac-
cordance with Ss rs from high quar-
ters. he was arrsxh y.
The Berliner NeSo y. Nachrichten,
In describing the ca1 Of a German
officer, Lieut.. Helm, Recently arrested
at Portsmouth on the same charge.
says:
The situation is quite different in
the Borkum case. Here we had spy
ing into very important new works,
knowledge of which would have
been Of the greatest value to the Eng
lish naval and military administra-
tlon. Moreover, 1t was specially train
ed men who undertook the work, men
who did not need to take their re-
suits home in black and white, but
for the most part could carry them in
their heads.
Thus these gentlemen have become
very dangerous, and, 1t is to be hoped,
will be kept in custody In Germany
for a very long time, with suitable in
tellectual distraction, in order that
what they have seen may not remain
ries."s
Information Not Important.
It should be added that no one has
yet suggested that the two defendants
procured more than could be added
by a pair of intelligent eyes to the
general staff maps and admiralty
charts which are to be bought at any
book shop.
The English expression "fair play
is being adopted into German lang
uage, but it's sense Is as yet very Inn
perfectly understood here.
A great outcry has also been raised
as the result Of timid and tentative
semi-oficial hints at the fact that the
German government has undertaken
to favor in principle the presence Of
representative Of the British gov
ernment at the Leipzig trial.
In more than one journal the sug-
gestion has been not only seriously,
but vehemently put forward that this
was nothing but trick, with the OBJ
ject of obtaining possession of the
Information collected by the defend
ants.
What the British diplomatic repre-
sentative will hear will not be valu-
able military mysteries, but general
evidence from which the public is
usually excluded in espionage cases,
for many and various reasons, among
/ them a desire to keep out of the
temptation of knowing how compare
lively high are the wages of treach-
cry.
The Lokalanzeiger published a
statement which appears to emanate
from an authoritative source to the
effect that the chancellor would have
no objection to recommending the
judicial authorities concerned to con-
slider favorably Great Britain's re-
quest. The court would Itself have
the right to exclude such a repre-
sentative when evidence Of secret
nature was about to be given.
The Tageszeitung protests vigor-
ously against the suggestion that a
British representative should be al
lowed privileges which would have
been gladly allowed to German rep
resentative in the case Of Lieut. Helm.
"a German representative at the
Helm trial" says the journal, would
only have heard things which he
could have learned more -cheaply and
with less trouble by buying picture
postcards of Portsmouth, while Brit
ish representative at the trial of the
Borkum espionage case might get a
glance into the whole Of the extern
sive material Of the British spies, and
by this means obtain possession of
important results Of their activity"
CHURCH WORKERS