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GERMANS IN RUSSIA
OFFICIAL PROTEST REJECTED
REPLY TO BERLIN
United Press Association —By Electric Tet«-
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(Received November 17, 9 ajn.)
MOSCOW, November 16,
The Government has rejected the German Embassy's protest against the arrests of Germans suspected of espionage, which Germany alleges number 12 in Leningrad and 9 in Moscow. Two j provinces of the Soviet Union admit j that they have in custody 14 Germans.
The German Embassy announces that two women, Frau Futterknecht and Fraulein Baerwald, are among the Germans arrested in Leningrad. Frau Futterknecht and her husband, a timber buyer, are charged with espionage, and Fraulein Baerwald with conspiracy, while her father is charged with both espionage and conspiracy. LONDON, November 16.
The Berlin correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says that the newspapers demand a quick reply from Moscow to the protest against the arrests of Germans, who now number 19, includling 11 in Leningrad.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 120, 17 November 1936, Page 11
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