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Show SPANISH SUBJECT ARRESTEE AS SPY PARIS. April 26 The arrest Monday Mon-day on an espionage charge of the Marquis de Arquevilly, a Spanish subject, sub-ject, has resulted in the publication of many details of his remarkable career. This morning newspapers tell how the marquis, after having worked as an engineer for the Krupps for eleven years, made a fortune of four million francs in commissions on the sales of submarines built on plans furnished by him. The marquis, according to these accounts, ac-counts, returned to France at the out- set of the war. got himself naturalized within 24 hours and was incorporated into the army where he obtained two promotions. The newspapers now declare de-clare that the submarine plans which he took to the Krupps were stolen from the French ministry of marine. M. Laubeuf, the engineer who drew the plans, tells the Petit Parisian that they were still missing but he makes no direct charge against the marquis. The first submarines produced by the Krupps, it is claimed, wero recognized as copies of the French submarine Aigrette. The marquis says he accepted ac-cepted offers made to him by the Krupps only after he had offered his services to both France and England and that he built four submarines for Russia before working for the Krupp firm. He denied that he stole the plans of the Aigrette. He war exempted ex-empted from army service last year because of heart trouble. The marquis, it appear built a shipyard at Bordeaux in close proximity prox-imity to the government establishment there. oo |