FOILING SPIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 7

FOILING SPIES

ADDITIONAL FUNDS NEEDED IN U.S.A. PRESIDENT’S DECLARATION. CRITICISM OF FORMER . OFFICIAL. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day, 9.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, June 24. President Roosevelt declared that the Army and Navy should have additional funds with which to combat espionage in the United States. He said the intelligence branches of both services bad insufficient money to cope with what he termed a most serious situation. Asked whether the desire for additional funds constituted counter-es-pionage, President Roosevelt replied that the running down of spies in America was his version of counterespionage. President Roosevelt also, without mentioning any name, condemned the action of a former Government employee, who, after unearthing spy information, resigned his position in order to write newspaper articles. POSITION OF ACCUSED MEN IN U.S.A. REPORTED TO HAVE SIGNED CONFESSIONS. NEW YORK, June 24. The “Daily News” has been informed by Mr Leon G. Turrou, ace agent of the Federal Investigation Bureau, who resigned to write his experiences during the Nazi spy round-up, that, despite their pleas of not guilty, the Government has signed confessions from the four accused and they will be faced with them during the trial.