MENACE TO AMERICAS

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 4

MENACE TO AMERICAS

BASES FOR E3PIONAGE. ARGENTINE AND CHILE.

P.A. Cable.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.

The refusal of Argentine and Chile to sev.er relations .with the Axis was permitting the other American republics to be stabbed in the back by enemy agents operating freely within their borders, said the Assistant Seere,tary of State, Mr Sumner Welles, ' to t^ne National and Foreign Trade Convention at Roston. He notecj with profound gratitude tji.at the 18 other American nations were solidly behind the United ■States. The remaining two repub-

lics were, still pepiutting their territofy to be utilised by Axis emissaries as a base for hostile activities against their neighbours. Aided by repoi ts sent by these agents, enemy submarines had taken a high toll . of ships and men serving under the flags of Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Columbia, Dominican Republic,, Uruguay, Fanama, and tlie United States, and of Chile and Argentina themselves. Jt is repofted from Santiago, Chile, that an innocont-looking cable, "Kindest regbrds to. mother and niy little daughter," gave the police the piissing clue to a vast , Nazi spy ring operating, in Latin America. Three lcaders were arrestecl and confessea to ^sending cipher messages toi a Nazi spy, Heinz Lufcen in Havana, who was ipcently sentenced to death. Seized doc.uments cpntai'n full lists of United States airmen in Chjle and also detailed information of ships' moyements y/hich , was transmitted by a : secret short-wave station. Some radio announcers in the United States have been tipping off enemy .submarines, according to reports received by ti.e Federal Com- 1 munications, Commission. One an- J nouncer is alleged to have given in-J foimation of cpnyoy movements froml America by dedicating songs to thJ crews of certain vessels. Another ifl alleged to liave used an open code b'fl juggling prices in radio advertise* ments and by deliberate and systM rnatic grammatical errors, said James Fly, chairman of the comroH sion, testifying to the Appropriati® Committee of the House of RepreB tatives. Mr Fly stressed the nefl

sity of investigating the persoiM of international and foreign langiH stations in the United States. fl The New York Times says fl Federal Government is expecteH take over next week and 14 V short-wave stations for official cV seas broadcasts. It will use therV "psychological warfare." One-H oi the. broadcasting. time .will. bfl voted to South Arnericd, and thV to overseas. fl