SPANISH ESPIONAGE BROKEN BY FRENCH
Received (Suiidtiv, 8.0 ]>.m. LONDOXj Dec. 28. The Burdoaux police yosterdav re-]i*a.-i'd Iwi) Spanish otH'-ers and three ntliers wlio were rounded up earlier in the week t'or queslioning about an alleged espioimge ring, reports Reutei* Paris ciii respondenl. Two Spanish otiicers were sent ba-k to Spain. The Prench pre.ss today alleges that a large-scale Spanish espionage netWork has lieen discovered in the llen"days regiun witli lo'anehes at Toulouse, Paris, Bordeaux, Pau and Perpignan ( near the Spanish frontierj. The whole orgaiiisalion is rejiorted to be direeted from Ihe Irgun in Spain. The Prench poliee are supposed to possess completo doi-unientary evidenee of the spv ring's activities which iindude the enlistnient and aid of Prench wartinie collabora1 ionists. Rcuter's Madrid correspondent savs five nien and two Spanish guards wero killed in a shooting aflray between a • iouj i of eivilians and a eivil guard jtalrol at the village of Fuentetoja near i'.aena.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 December 1946, Page 5
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