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Show BRITISH SUSPECT GERMAN INTRIGUE AT WORK IN CUBA LONDON, Feb. 14, 6:-!2 p. m. British officials are interested in the news of a revolutionary outbreak in Cuba, where, they assert, they have reason to suspect sus-pect German agents have been at work for a long time. Only a few weeks lco Captain Hans Boehm, a German army officer, was taken from the Dutch steamer Zeelandia at Falmouth. He had in his possession a chart of Santa Lucia bay, Cuba, where, according to papers seized at the same time, German agents had secured an oil concession. It is the belief here that the Santa Lucia project was being developed by means of money sent from New York to Havana. The British naval authorities, while they have failed to discover any German submarine base in the West Indies, declare de-clare that they have long had reason to suspect the intention of the Germans to ; establish one there, and as a consequence i they look with suspicion upon the Cuban j oil project, as possibly a blind to hide the establishment of a refuge from which submarines could operate. Boehm was not a leader in these projects, but had only been carrying out the orders of a superior, whose name is known to the British authorities, although it has not been disclosed. |