New Britain herald., 1925-12-08
MORE ARRESTS IN
 FRENCH SPY CASE
Girl, Arrested, Said to Have In,
 YOlVeQ British Officers

Paris. Dec, P,-Some Of tho newspapers openly assert today that Great Britain is the power for which Marthe Moreuil, the 95.year-old parisienne and former nursc, artista model and parachute jumper, was trying to obtain information about the French air services. The young woman Is under arrest, charged with espionage, and there also are in cus- tody three men, James Leather, Fisher Williams and Ernest Oliver Phillips. who are alleged 10 have employed Mile. Morouil. The news papers assert that Leather and Phil. lips are Englishmen, the former q lieutenant and the other non-com. missioncd officer of the regular Brit ish army, who have been detached into the intelligence service.
 Active as Spy.
 When Mile. Moreuil was question: ed by the police, who said she had been extremely active in spying dur ing the past few months. she is said 10 have told them of trips 10 Ouors, Pierriefeu and St. Rafaol-O, avia- ton bases, and 10 St. Nazaire, Bor- 1eaux and Ayre. Glibly she is said 10 have recounted her experience, to have made a full confession and 10 have given the names of the three men, who, she asserts had paid for her services. On the strength of this Leather. Williams and Phillips, who conducted a radio store, were ar rested. All of them denied the charge.
 During the summer at Rennes and Nantes Mile. Moreuil achieved mo- toriety by going up in airplanes and jumping from them with parachute attached 10 her body, The military authorities had given her card ad- hitting her to flying fields.
 The Petit Parisien. which rarely ever editorializes on any subject, to- day departs from it's usual practice and treats of the espionage case, It asks If governments are going to continue in peace time the miserable game of spying and counter-spying with its long record of swindles and hoaxes.
 The League Of Nations" 1t adds, has met to make peace between the English and the Turks. IL is q good opportunity 10 add to it's agenda peace between the espionage serv- ices"
 Henry Dc keri,lis, the air expert of the Echo De Paris, expresses amusement over the situation. He remarks that if Mile Moreuil sought information at the places mentioned she was wasting time, for all the facts there are public property.
 Has No Secrets.
 He also declares that the French air service has no scouts for any body. He had drawn the attention to tnder-Secretary of Aviation Laur- ent- Eynac 10 the gravity of certain facts. For one thing, French aero nautic workshops were shown from top 10 bottom 10 visiting tcchnicians Of all nations, and French technical reviews, which are subject to no sort of control publish daily drawings and detailed descriptions not only of the latest planes, engines and special devices, but of projects and inven- tons still in the experimental stage which ought 10 remain the secrets of laboratories
 The authoriti"s assert that any in formation which Mile. MOrcuil may have obtaine1 was quite inoflonsivc. The secret police, however, are de- cIared to be annoycl over the p1h- licity ciyen tho affair, saying that hy it's suspects have hcon warned anu given tome 10 dos'roy all compro- missing documents,