New York, Apr. 7.
Five persons suspected of espionage activities were arrested to-day by Federal agents and arraigned before the Federal District Court here. They were said to be members of a spy ring which attempted to sell naval codes and naval plans to unnamed foreign powers, The Court also held as material witnesses Wilhelm Boening, a Nazi storm trooper; Karl Friedrich Hermann and John Baptiste Uunkel, The United States Attorney said either Hermann or Uunkel was also a Nazi storm trooper.
The arrested suspects were believed to be members of the same gang, four of whom, three men and one ' woman, were apprehended by Federal agents earlier this year. One of the three men was a trained mechanic employed by the Seversky Aircraft Corporation of New York, Drive on Japanese Spies The "New York World Telegram" today launched a campaign against Japanese spies in the United States in an editorial which declared Japanese espionage activities in the United States left the country. "wide open to overt and sudden violence in the event of hostilities,"
"The United States," the paper declared, "is an unwary object of a tremendously effective _peace-time espionage system....and has already undergone bold and bare-faced raids on immensely valuable economic resources,"
The "World Telegram" said it had learned from reliable sources that Japanese fishing boats were maintaining surveillance lines extending from the Aleutian Islands to Mexico, including America's entire Pacific defence triangle. The newspaper said these Japanese fishing boats were built so as to be easily convertible into mine layers and torpedo boats,
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