New York, June 20.
FEDERAL Grand Jury here today officially named Germany as the country sponsoring widespread espionage activities in the United States in an attempt to obtain American defence secrets. The Grand Jury simultaneously returned three indictments charging eighteen persons, alleged to be in the pay of the German secret service, with conspiring to obtain and transmit ta Germany secret plans and codes of the American defence forces dealing with aircraft, war vessels and coastal armaments.
German officials are also openly accused.
The indictments will open one of the most sensational spy cases ever discovered in the United States.
Beautiful German women, tempted to obtain military tion from American Army officers, and other characters usually found in fiction on espionage, will face trial as a result of today's indictments.
Several suicides have been discovered in the course of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's activity in the case, and several Federal witnesses believed to have been connected with the spy ring at one time have disappeared. Several of them have been known to have reappeared in Germany.
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