Now York, May 20.
Dr. Ignatz Gricbl, an important witness in the impending trial of seventeen members of an alleged international spy ring, has mysteriously. disappeared.
He is reported to have been taken to Germany aboard "the German liner Bremen, without the know: edge of his wife.
Frau Grlebl scoffed, however, at reports that her husband had been "spirited away," and declared he had gone to Germany on a business trip. He would be back within three weeks, she declared.
Dr, Greibl, formerly a German me telligence officer, 1s now a naturalized American.
The forthcoming trial follows the arrest last February: of two men and tone woman on a charge of plotting to sell secrets of the United States Army and Navy.—Reuter,
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