CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE

Evening Star, Issue 23101, 29 October 1938, Page 17

CHARGES OF ESPIONAGE

PROGRESS OF AMERICAN TRIAL MISSING DOCUMENTS CAUSE FLURRY Press Association—By Telegraph—-Copyngtu NEW YORK, October 27. A flurry was caused in the court room at the German spy 'trial when the Federal Attorney announced he was unable to find important evidence which the British authorities had lent the United States for the prosecutionnamely, a letter intercepted at Mrs Jordan’s so-called spy post office. Mrs Jordan was now serving a terra of imprisonment in England, and the evidence had to be returned to Britain. The Federal Attorney began an immediate investigation into the disappearance of the documents. The missing documents were later found in a cupboard, and the trial settled into its normal pace. Mrs Busch, a friend of Griebl, testified that two high German Government officials suggested she should rent a villa in Washington to serve as a social centre at which Nazism could be explained to men of standing, such as Congressmen, military men,, and journalists. These officials were Lieutenantcommanders von Bonin and Menzel from the Reich War Ministry (both are under indictment here). They declared that money was no object. Witness said she accompanied Griebl to Berlin, where von Bonin and Menzel, at a luncheon party which they gave her, complimented her on her chic appearance, and stressed that she would have no difficulty in attracting the best society in Washington. They expressed great admiration tor President Roosevelt, saying, that he was “a great navy man.” A machine gun was mounted in the court room to-day, experts explaining a similarity of design in certain parts on the most modern type with the details of Lonkowski’s stolen plans. It was also disclosed that Lonkowski had plans of modern American bombers months before the manufacturing company could turn out the first exemplar for the American military authorities.