ARRESTED BY RUSSIANS
Charges Of Spying Against Austrians NZPA—Copyright LONDON. Sept. 26. The United Press correspondent in Vienna says that the Ministry of the Interior announced to-night that Russian officials had arrested five more Austrians on charges of spying. Three days ago an Austrian woman wbrking at a Russian command post and another Austrian who worked as a part-time nurse in a Vienna hospital were arrested on charges of having spied for the United States Army. One man was killed and another injured to-day by mines attached to barbed-wire entangements. which the Hungarians have erected along their frontier with Austria. The man killed was a gendarme patrolling the frontier. The mine exploded about 60 feet away, killing him instantly. A young farmer was injured when he touched 'a tripwire near the frontier fence.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27197, 28 September 1949, Page 5
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