GERMAN SPIES IN AMERICA.
AT WORK IN SHELL FACTORY. STEEL TAMPERED WITH. WASHINGTON, April 2. The Senate passed a resolution extending the selective draft, hereby adding seven hundred thousand men to the lists. Senator Overman, referring to the delay in supplying General Pershing's force with aircraft, said there were forty thousand German spies in. the United States. Some were working in aeroplane plants. He exhibited a piece of steel sawn through, plugged with lead, and painted, so as as to deceive detection. This was the work of a spy, whose presence in Curtis's works had delayed the construction of batjtle planes two months. Mr. Overman added that it had been said there were a hundred thousand spies in America. He believed there were four hundred thousand. The Government is taking over the
operation of six great German-owned textile woollen plants in New Jersey, valued at fourteen million sterling.
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Taihape Daily Times, 4 April 1918, Page 3
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