COMMUNISTS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND AMERICAN SPY RING IN MUKDEN

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 June 1949, Page 5

COMMUNISTS SAY THEY HAVE FOUND AMERICAN SPY RING IN MUKDEN

Z P A.—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, June 18.—Communist! authorities have discovered an Ameri-j ’an spy ring in Mukden, Manchuria, and have arrested three of its members, reports the Chinese communist’ radio. It accused the United States Consulate and army liaison group at Mukden of acting as “espionage organs.” The American Consul-General, Mr. I Angus Ward, and his staff of nine at Mukden, have been under virtual arrest since Communists took over the city. Three suspects arrested were identified as a Japanese, known as Sasaki, an alleged leader of the ring, Pai Yi Chang, a Mongolian, and Wu Jen Chi, of Chinese-American descent. The radio said the Communist Public Security Bureau seized six radio receivers, three transmitters, 16 American “spy” code books, four letters of instructions from Americans and 13 “lists of American espionage organisation.”