SABOTAGE IN U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1940, Page 5

SABOTAGE IN U.S.A.

DISCOVERED BY FEDERAL BUREAU EMERY DUST IN AIRCRAFT AND NAVAL ENGINES INSISTENCE ON SECURITY ACTION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON. August 5. Mr J. Edgar Hoover disclosed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has uncovered sabotage which included the placing of emery dust in aeroplane engines and destructive metal in naval motive power. He added that subversive agencies were taught the most terrible means of destruction in schools. Every one of these henious things was done by persons who were shielded by innocent but subversive forces. General Marshall, in a broadcast in Washington, asserted that further delays in Congress in authorising conscription of the National Guard might seriously jeopardise the effectiveness of the defence preparations. "We must not speculate with the security of the nation.” he said. “We must train men immediately against the possibilities of the next few months, which may be the most critical in the history of the country.” The Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, today conferred with Colonel William J. Donovan, who returned from Britain aboard the flying-boat Clare yesterday at the conclusion of a secret mission for the United States Government.