WAR ON SPIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1942, Page 3

WAR ON SPIES

MORE ARRESTS IN UNITED STATES BROADCAST WARNING ISSUED. AGAINST THREE DANGEROUS SABOTEURS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) f WASHINGTON. July 25. The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr J. Edgar Hoover, has ordered the distribution of hundreds of thousands of posters throughout the nation, announcing that three dangerous Nazi saboteurs are en route to America or have already landed. Their names are given: Walter Kappe, Joseph Schmidt and Rheinhold Barth, also several aliases. All three are described as expert saboteurs, trained in German sabotage schools, who have received orders from the Nazi High Command to destroy vital American war industries. ■ The trial of the Nazi saboteurs has apparently entered the closing stages as three more defendants testified before the 'military commission. Six defendants have now taken the stand and the remaining two are expected to be heard tomorrow. The trial was resumed today after a day’s hiatus which is believed to have been granted to enable the prosecution and the defence to prepare their final arguments which may be given tomorow. It is reported from New York that the F. 8.1. arrested eight German aliens and one Italian. Their names

are not revealed, but one is an admitted member of the Nazi Party since 1933 and another entered the country illegally. A New York message states that the F. 8.1., continuing its sweeping arrests of dangerous aliens, arrested eleven Germans and Italians and confiscated charts and aerial photographs showing vital spots in the New York and New Jersey defence area, specially designed for the guidance of enemy bombers. The Federal authorities have placed William Griffin, publisher of the New York “Enquirer” under technical arrest in St. Clare’s Hospital, which he entered last night for treatment of a heart ailment. Griffin has been sought since yesterday, when he was indicted for conspiracy to undermine the morale of the armed services.