END OF GERMAN SPY RING IN THE FAR EAST
Shanghai, Jan. 17. A United States military commission has' sentenced twenty-one Nazis to prison terms ranging from five years to life, for having operated a spy agency for Japanese in the Far East after the surrender of Germany. Ludwig Ehrhardt, German espionage chief in the Orient, was given, a life sentence and two others thirty years eacn. Some of the others convicted were the attractive Frau Maria Muller, Dr. Franz Seibert, former German Con-sul-General and head of the spy ring in Canton, Dr. Felix Altenburg, former Charge d'Affairs at the German Embassy in Peiping, and Bodo Hahenicht, the expert code-breaker who "cracked” the United States coastguard code when it was one of the main communication channels for Amerocan convoys.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 21 January 1947, Page 5
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