AMERICAN REINFORCEMENTS
SELECTIVE DRAFT EXTENDED
AN ADDITIONAL 700,000 MEN
SPIES IN AMERICA. (Rec. April 3, 9.10 a.m.} WASHINGTON, April 2.
The Senate passed a resolution extending the selective draft, thereby adding 700,000 men to the lists. Senator Overman, referring to fcht» delay in supplying General Pershing's forces with aircraft, said that 40,000 German spies were in the United) States, some* workinsr in the aeroplane plants. 'He exhibited a piece of steel sawn through and plugged with lead and painted so as to deceive detection. * This was the work of a spy-, whose presence in the Curtiss works delayed the construction of battle planes for two months. Senator Overman said it had been said that there were 100,000 spies in .America. IHe believed there were 400.C00. The Government is taking over and operating six great Germanowned textile woollen nlants in New Jersey, valued at £14,000,000.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 76, 3 April 1918, Page 5
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