ARRESTED IN MEXICO

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1942, Page 4

ARRESTED IN MEXICO

AND HELD ON HEAVY BAIL IN U.S.A. GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND LEADER, CHARGE OF VIOLATING SERVICE ACT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 7. Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, described by the Federal authorities as the Fuehrer of the German American Bund, is held on 50,000 dollars bail on a charge of violating the Selective Act. Kunze was recently arrested in Mexico and handed to the United States authorities. A Washington message states that all the national sectional officers and principal leaders of the Bund are among those indicted. Two indictments have been returned. The first charged 26 of the Bundists with conspiracy and counselling Bundists to resist service in the United States armed forces. It is also charged that the Bund sought to further German political propaganda aims, while pretending to be an American organisation. Federal agents, states a New York message, are now rounding up 29 Bundists. The Government has announced its intention of putting the Bund out of business.

ADDITIONAL ACTION TAKEN IN EIGHT STATES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, July 7. The United States Department of Justice announced, according to a Washington message, that 29 GermanAmerican Bund leaders, from eight States, had been indicted by a New York Federal Grand Jury with conspiring to defeat the purpose of the Selective Service Act, and to violate the Registration Act.