NAZI ESPIONAGE

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1939, Page 7

NAZI ESPIONAGE

FRENCH PURGE TO CONTINUE PRIME. MINISTER’S ASSURANCE [BY CABLE—PRESS ASSN.—COPWOIIT.] . PARIS, July 15. The Prime Minister (M. Daladlei n ' has personally taken charge of the vestigations into Nazi propaganda under the espionage laws. _ In an official statement, M. Data dier assures the country that the purge will be pursued without consideration for anyone. “We are also resolved to prevent toe Government’s action becoming a matter for polemics, he states. Publication of information with relation to the investigation will henceforth be punishable unless sanctioned by the authorities. The statement adds that those uho have been arrested admit that they received large sums from agents ol foreign Powers. , The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says that M. Robert Brasillach (editor) and M. Pierre Gaxotte (assistant editor) of the weekly “Je Suis Partout,” are suing the Paris wireless and several newspapers for £2,220 damages for announcing their arrest .in connection with Nazi spy activities. Both deny receiving any payments.

ACTIVITY IN BRITAIN

LONDON, July 16.

A further increase in the number of detectives attached to the special branch of Scotland Yard will be made following the discovery of intensified activity on the part of Nazi agents m Britain. • , „ • The French Anti-spy Bureau m Paris has secured information revealing plans of the German espionage department to flood Britain and France with agents on the-lines'of the pre-war Gelman intelligence activities.