INCREDIBLE PLOT

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 13

INCREDIBLE PLOT

M. STAVISKY AGAIN

(Received March 24^ 11 a.m.) PARIS, March 23. Galmot's betrayal of U. Stavisky, it is alleged, frustrated an incredible plot to seize French Guiana. It is alleged that M. planned a release of Devils.-Island convicts, constituting them a force, called "Stavisky's Own" with which to expel the garrison of 600 troops. He sought the support of Galmot because he was regarded as the idol of French Guiana. -

A message from Paris stated that the espionage case discovered in December is developing into • what the French police describe.:as the biggest sensation an-.the history of gang,spying. :It is likely eventually to involve 200 arrests The Americans, Robert Switz and his wife, have 'made confessions which show that an international gang, supplied with unlimited money, was, working for Germany and Russia to the detriment of Britain, France, and the United States. After speaking to Switz the police rounded up suspects, arrested 16 and discovered a code.conveying information of vital importance relative to the industrial mobilisation of France ! and a record of payments to French officers and engineers. The documents obtained by the gang were sent to Switzerland, where they'were copied and sent on to Moscow and Berlin Officials at Scotland Yard believe that Switz, the American, and" his British wife, were catspaws in a vast organisation. They hurriedly departed from London in 1932, leaving a book containing the1- rudiments of a code which indicated that a woman who lived m a flat in South-West London was directing their operations, but she proved untraceable.