Material Witness In Spy Japanese Papers Publish Ring Investigations Details of Alleged Pact; New York, June 10.
Joint Defence Mrs. Griebl, wife of Dr. Ignatz Griebl, an important witness in the Tokyo, June 10, trial of the seventeen members of an Unperturbed by persistent denials alleged international spy ring has from Moscow and Hankow, local been summoned io give evidence. newspapers today published what She is being held as a material wit-purported to be six conditions made ness on bail for $5,000. by the Soviet Government in ex-The authorities state that she had tending military aid to Gen. Chiang booked a passage on the next ship Kai-shek. leaving for Germany.
The set of conditions, said to have Dr. Griebl, it will be recalled, mys-been presented to Mr, Sun Fo, chair-tonously disappeared in the middle man of the Nationalist Government's of last month, and arrived in Ger-Legislative Yuan, during his recent many on May 21, where he paid a visit in Moscow, was reported to in-fine of sixty marks for breaking Gercluded. man passport regulations.
1, Joint defence of the Sino-Subsequently, four members of the Soviet border; Bremen, which took Dr. Griebl to 2. Increased supply of arms and Germany, were held as material ammunition by the Nationalist Gov-witnesses. They were instructed that ernment to the guerilla units they could not leave the country affiliated with the former Red forces; pending the hearing of the espionage 3, Recognition of Russia's special charges. interests in Sinkiang, Ninghsia and On May 29, Mr. Lamar Herdy, pro-Chinghai; sector in the spy ring investigations, 4. Ca-operation in the construc-revealed that warrants had been tion of a railway linking Soviet issued for the arrest of Dr. Griebl, on Russia with China; a charge of violating the World War 5. Appointment of Soviet Russians Espionage Statute.—Reuter. as advisers to the Nationalist Government; 6. Reforms in the administrative machinery of the Nationalist Government, according to a plan drafted by Soviet experts.
Commenting on the reported conditions, the dailies said that while under normal circumstances the Nationalist Government would reject the terms, their acceptance by the Hankow regime at present is possible.
—Domei.
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