VAST SPYING PLOT
COMMUNISTS IN FRANCK
ACTIVITY CP THE POLICE.
AL.EQATSONQ AGAJfIiST OFFICIAL^ PARIS, April 15. The French police announce tho partial uncovering of a vast spying plot In which Communists are alleged to havo sought Information regarding French military and aerial weapons for tho use of tho Soviet Embassy. Two municipal councillors in St. Cyr, where the army aviation proving grounds are located, have been arrested, while the arrest has also been ordered of a Paris municipal official, named Crement, whom the police describe as a Communist. Tho police, on a visit to Crement's home, learned that he and a woman secretary had been missing for three days. Two of tho five Communists ' previously arrested are alleged to have been in possession of Government documents relating to national defonce.
The police declare that the Communists approached workers in the Government arsenals and factories in an endeavor to obtain information.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17078, 16 April 1927, Page 7
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