INDUSTRIAL SPIES

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 180, 28 April 1931, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL SPIES

Agents of Soviet in German Factories REMARKABLE SYSTEM By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Rec. April 27, 7.30 p.m.) London, April 27. The “Dally Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent says the scandal of Russian Industrial espionage in Germany is assuming gigantic proportions. Agents of the Soviet are being caught continually, and it is evident that the country is covered by a network of informers betraying their employers’ secrets Io Moscow. It is part of the five-year plan to render Russia independent of the outside world, so the spies are working in ali branches of industry In wh'ch Russia is backward Thus five workmen have been arrested in the Leuna nitrate works in Merseburg. Many other arrests have been due to the confession c-f an agent named Dienstbach, who nas been charged with Russian espionage in Southern Germany. He revealed the names of 25 spies distributed in various works. WILL NEVER RETURN American View of Russia WORLD PLANS REVEALED (Rec. April 27, 8 p.m.) New York, April 26. “I would not return there if they gave me half the country,” said Mr. Clarence Warren, a high official of the Allis Chalmers Company, who was loaned to give expert advice to the Russian Government.

He says that Russia hopes to “communise” India aud China within three years, then turn its attention to England, the United States, and Australia.