NAZI SPY AGENCY FOR JAPS IN FAR EAST
21 GERMANS SENT TO GAOL. Reeeived Sunday, 9.59 p.m. S1IANGHAI, Jan. 17. A United States Hilitary Gonimission sentenced 21 Nazis to prison terins, ranging from five years to life, for liavmg operated a spv agency for tlie Jap anese in the Far East after Germany's surrendel-. Ludwig Ehrhardt, the German espionage ehief in the Orient, was given li-te and two others 80 years eaeh. Some oi the others eonvicted were attra-tive Frau Maria Muller, Dr. Franz Seibert (former German Uonsul-General and head of the spy ring in Canton), Dr. Felix Altenburg (former Gliarge d'Aifaires at the German Embassy in Peiping), Bodo Habenicht (the ace code-bteaker, who erashed the l. nited States Coastguard code when it was oue of the main communication channels for Ainet'ican convoys). T-he'---tJniteil Bress said that the .soealled;1(.Avi^^p|f , espionage agenq;. wpi • which- YatisSd 1 hCu'i'vy Aiiferican ldsses at Okinawa and iii other PaciJic cam paigns. The members of tlie notorious Ehrhardt bureau cloaked their. opera- ' tions under the pretence of diplomatic or German business activities. The spy ring operated from Siberia and Manehuria to Ceylon and Australia and in the Paeilic area to as far as llawaii.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 January 1947, Page 5
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