At Bow Street Police Station today George Hansen (24), formerly described as a student of languages, fand Wilfred McCertney (29), merly described as an Irish-American, who were recently arrested and acevsed of collecting information calculated to be useful to a foreign Power and prejudicial to the State were committed for trial at the Old; Bailey.
Both accused pleaded "not guilty" and reserved their defence.
On December 3 counsel for the} prosecution declared that Hansen, alias Johnson, was a German subject, and MeGartncy, alins Fru was' a member of the British Commonist Party, while the foreign Power concerned in the case was the Government of Soviet Russia, Reuter.
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