GREAT SPYING PLOT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19339, 1 June 1937, Page 3

GREAT SPYING PLOT

REVEALED IN PALESTINE

POLICE SEEK BLONDE

JERUSALEM, April M

Police believed to-day that they were hot on the trail of an espionage and arms smuggling ring of astoni-a-

ing proportions. 'flu: murder of an obscure Palestinian caused one suicide, tile arrest ol’ live men, one of whom polic suspect as the spy leader, and ev“;i put the police after the mysterious Idi ; 1 dc of the best spy tradition. Jaeob Zwaager disappear’! i.ii Aland) It). His body was limn lon Mareli 27, buried in the traditional shallow graia’, in an orange gn ve at Kanmlgau, near Tel-. Aviv. Beaten to Death

A police investigation disclos” 1 that Zwanger had been beaten to death with a hammer in the basement of a. house at Kamatgan, owner by Reuben •Sehenvit.

The police found in the house a powerful radio t ransmil ling ami receiving set, a dozen microphones and dictographs, amt tin,ally a tmiyd. monel leading to ilt<* orange grove. The police said they obtained evidence that Zwanger years ago was a Soviet vice-conimissar.

They arrested Sehenvit. the owner of the mysterious house, and charged him with Zwanger’s murder. They said they believed Zwanger was killed because lie knew too much about a spy and arms smuggling plot. Next llie police arrested an Arab, Abdul K hailer. as Sehenvit -V. accomplice. They asserted that Khader confessed that he killed Zwanger at Sehenvit’s orders.