London's Big Spy Move

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 13 (Supplement)

London's Big Spy Move

AMERICAS ace spy hunter, f* District Attorney Lamar Hardy, of New York, told a London Sunday newspaper by ocean telephone a few weeks ago how he may track down in London one of the world's biggest espionage rings.

District Attorney Hardy was speaking from the liner X ormandie, bound for Southampton.

Fresh from his big "round-up" of foreign secret agents in the United States, he said: "It would not be policy to give away any information on the subject at the moment. But the fact I am here indicates that I may divert my attention to the suspected organisation we believe exists in London.

''Perhaps it is one of the greatest spy-rings in the world. I have several important clues to follow up, end mv inquiries may take me to several countries."

With Mr. Ilardy was his 23-year-old daughter Claire, who will stay in Paris while her father finishes his task of breaking tip a spy ring which has caused grave concern to the Governments of America. Britain and France.

His conduct of the investigation in Xew York resulted in the indictment of IS people accused of spying for Germany.

It is understood that liis sources of information reve»iled definite evidence of a European network of espionage which ha#; functioned for several y£ars. At 59, District Attorney Hardy has won fame as "'the man who never rests until he has cleared up his case."