ESPIONAGE GANG
STARTLING CONFESSIONS • RUSSO -GERMAN OPERATORS. SUSPECTS ARRESTED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received 12..°>0 p.m.) PARIS, March 20. The espionage investigations are developing into what the French police describe as the biggest, sensation in the history of gang spying, and are likely eventually to involve 200 arrests. Confessions of two Americans, Robert ’Switz and and his wife, show that an international gang, supplied with unlimited money, is working for Germany and Russia to the detriment, of Britain, France and the United States, After speaking to Switz, the police rounded up suspects and arrested sixteen. They discovered a. code conveying information of vital importance relative to industrial mobilisation in France and a record of payments to French officers and engineres. Documents obtained by the 'gang Were sent to Switzerland, where they' were copied and sent on to Moscow and Berlin. The trial is expected to begin in July.
IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA. EVIDENCE UNEARTHED. (Received 1 p.m.) PRAGUE, March 20, The Czecho-,Slovakian police claim to have unearthed evidence proving the existence of an espionage organisation working on behalf of Germany, Tvventv-five arrests have been made.
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Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 5
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184ESPIONAGE GANG Northern Advocate, 21 March 1934, Page 5
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