ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES
SWISS POLICE ACTION ■• [~f*- "■'•"': "'"'GENEVA, Aug. 20. ; Thre'P men accused of being German spies, have been arrested by the coshter-okpionage' department of the Stops'T'e'dcraT police. Two are Ger',j&%ti§,. the third is Swiss. They, are stated to have been memVber's of a chain ,of German' agents in ' Switzerland, who maintained contact ..b&Ween German spies working in Ft&Q.ce,an/l, the headquarters of the German intelligence service. The »of- this chain was to pass requests for information from Berlin "..to -.Eranee rind to ' relay information from France back to Berlin. ' •-JEvery ..possible :. precaution was taken to ensure that no single'membejr "of 'the', organisation, apart from "the' chief, who is one of the arrested many had any knowledge of any save two of his immediate colleagues. ; '. Among the papers seized by the "police have been found instructions to •obtain information on the- roads be--4-bsttft:.thc French frontier, the mechanisation of the French Army and its ".ifeyir'-.tr.nks and the potentialities of , : thir~ section of engineers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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161ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19137, 5 October 1936, Page 12
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