New York, Mar. 27, An indictment, charging the Bausch and Lamb Optical of Rochester, and the Carl Zeiss Com-any, of Germany, with "dividing the world between them," for the sale of military and optical instruments, thus Festraining trade in violation of the anti-trust laws, has been returned by the Federal Grand Jury.
The United States attorney, Mr. Isseks, stated that the companies had mode 'a secret agreement in 1921, whereby the American company would exclusively serve America, and the German company, the rest of the world.
Consequently, the American compony had refused to sell periscopes, Fange-finders, gun-sights, bomb-sights, ele, {0 foreign Governments" oF American shipyards building for foreign Governments, unless the German firm consented and agreed to the rice.
The indictment further claimed that the American company charged unreasonably high prices to purchas es, including the United States Gov German Ship Altmark Arrives in Kiel ews agency revealed.
"The Altmarke was beached in Jocssing Fiord, Norway, and was believed she would be interned by the Ner~ wegian authorities, "The highly publicized Altmark in cident occurred when a British destroyer stopped the German ship within Norwegian territorial waters to take off 209 Britons held prisoners-fof-war by the captain who had kept their presence a secret from the Nor-
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