NEAR FRENCH FORTS.
DISCOVERY OF SPIES. FLIER AND GERMAN AGENTS. PARIS, July 26. The discovery of an organisation engaged in spying and another in arms trafficking has alarmed French military circles. The espionage group is believed to have extensive contacts along sections of France’s eastern frontier, including the Maginot Line of fortifications. Secret service operatives first learned of the spying through the arrest in France of a Belgian, Corporal Simon, of the Third Artillery Regiment, stationed at Liege. He was charged with desertion, theft of documents, and espionage. Papers found on him _lcd to the arrest of Jean Sellicr, 35 a French airman. 11l Sellier’s home were found maps, notes on smuggled arms, photographs of French warships and military aircraft, and lists containing the names of German and French aviators. There was also a compromising, letter from a German Consul in Belgium. Some of these documents, it, is alleged, linked Sellier with German agents at Metz, Dijon, Strassbourg, and Chamonix. Other searches at Marseilles revealed evidence of a heavy traffic in smuggled arms. In the home of Phillipc Buccini the police found revolvers, machineguns and rifles.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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186NEAR FRENCH FORTS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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