GIGANTIC PLOT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 77, 28 February 1938, Page 9

GIGANTIC PLOT.

TO BETRAY SECRETS. AMERICAN DISCOVERY. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Mr John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has announced that three, persons, a 26-year-old attractive German woman and two United States soldiers, have been arrested concerning an alleged gigantic plot to sell American military secrets to a European country. Mr Hoover said that two . confessions had already been obtained. The three will be charged with espionage. Those arrested were:— Guenther Rumrieh, aged 27, sergeant of the United States Army, who deserted in 1935. He was born in the United States, but received his education in Germany, where he spent most of bis life. . Erich Glaser, aged 28, a private in the air defence post at Mitchell Field, New York. He was born in Germany. Johanna Hoffman, aged 26, of Dresden, hairdresser on the liner Europa. The ring were apprehended when they attempted to obtain 50 passport applications, ostensibly to enable spies to enter Russia under tlie comparative safety of falsified American passports. The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced that tlie arrests are considered to be of the greatest importance. - , Many others are expected to loilow.