SECOND TRIAL AT MUNICH

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25736, 23 February 1949, Page 5

SECOND TRIAL AT MUNICH

ALLEGED ESPIONAGE AGAINST U.S. (Rec. 7 p.m.) BERLIN. February 21. A statement that the -United States had 600 atom bombs “but had lost one” was made in a report mentioned at the trial at Munich before an American military commission of five alleged members of a spy ring. There was no indication of the source of the atom bomb figures, which were alleged to be contained in documents found by German police in a large shopping bag carried by a Pole named Thco4pre Szendielorz, one of the accused. This is the second of five trials in which the accused are charged with espionage against the United States. Unlike the first case, it is being conducted publicly. The documents in the shopping bag carried by Szendielorz when German policemen stepped him on September 15. 1948, included sketches, maps, and reports on military subjects ranging from troop trains to United States atom bomb production. The prosecution said that reports written in German included sketches of the United States Army’s manoeuvres area at Grafenwohr, and material dealing with German factories, rail communications centres, and gas, water, and electric works in Bavaria. The prosecutor did not name the foreign Power for whom the five men are alleged to have worked. The Munich correspondent of the Associated Press says that spectators in the court sniggered when the document on atom bombs was read. Observers say that the reports about United States Army manoeuvres contained much information released officially to newspapers. Information contained in other reports about the times of passenger trains carrying military nolice and the locations of public buildings could have been obtained without difficulty. Maori League Player Married.—Kia Rika, the Halifax Rugby League team’s Maori three-quarter yesterday married Miss Jean Ingham, of Halifax. The former New Zealand international Rugby Union half-back, Proctor, was best man.—London, February 21.