INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1931, Page 7

INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE

RUSSIA ACTIVE IN GERMANY

AGENTS BETRAY EMPLOYERS

FREQUENT CAPTURES MADE

PART OF FIVE YEARS’ PLAN

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 7.15 p.m. London, April 27 The scandal of Russian industrial espionage in Germany is assuming gigantic proportions, says the Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. Agents of the Soviet are being caught continually and it is evident the Country is covered by a network of informers who are betraying their employ ers’ secrets to Moscow.

It is part of the five years’ plan to render Russia independent of the outside world, so spies ate Working in all branches of industry in which Russia is backward. Five workmen who were arrested in Leuna nitrate works at Merseburg and many other arrests are due to the confession of an agent named Dienstbach, who was charged with Russian espionage in southern Germany. He' revealed the names of 25 spies distributed through the various works. PLAN TO COMMUNISE INDIA. EMPIRE AND U.S.A. TO FOLLOW. Rec. 5.5 p.m. New York, April 26. “I would not return there if they gave me half the country,” said Mr, Clarehcy Warren, a high official of the Allis Chalmers ,Company who was lent to give expert advice to the Russian Government. He says Russia hopes to commtinise India and China within three years and then to turn her attention to England, the United States and Australia.