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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20826, 3 July 1942, Page 3

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SPIES AND SABOTEURS OVER 100 ALIENS SEIZED VITAL U.S. DEFENCE AREAS (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—-Copyright.) (9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 2. Lightning raids by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York apd other key points resulted in the arrest <of ibver 100 suspected spies and saboteurs. Nearly 100 enemy aliens were seized at Altoona, Pennsylvania—an important defence area which includes the Pennsylvanian railroad’s Horseshoe Curve which the submarine saboteurs had earmarked for destruction. G-men staged a surprise swoop on suspects’ homes, armed with Presidential warrants. Among those arrested we.'e employees of railroad’s main shops, one of the country's key transportation bases. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that valuable information had been transmitted from Altoona to members of a Nazi sabotage ring in New York. The Altoona raids came a few hours after .the Bureau struck simultaneously iri 20 New Jersey towns and arrested 12 suspects, confiscating quantities of ammunition, cameras, and radio equipment. Twelve more suspects were seized in New York and around the aayv yard at Brooklyn. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press says that eight saboteurs, who were landed from German submarines, will be tried by a military commission next week and the death penalty sought.