The United States has detained €t foreign a a "for de. portation or disposition," the Secretary of War. Col Henry L Stimson. told the press here yester The agents are being detained "it the Panama immigration station, he seid. He did not give the nationality of the arrested agents.
There are no aliens employed either by the Army or the Canal Zone, h^ declared. except Panamanjans. "All aliens other than Panamanians formerly employed by either the Army or the Canal Zone have been discharged," Col. Stimson said German Caught with Codes The War Secretary declined to elaborate on the detention of the 81 agents, He would not say whether they v arrested by Army or Federal agents.
"The situation in Panama," he declared, "is one in which the Army probably realizes the danger more ihan anybody else,"
lthough authorities at Balboa told the United Press they had no infor-motion regarding the arrests, it was lamed that German, Austrian and Jewish refugees are being held at the quarantine station at Balboa awaiting quota numbers for entry into ihe United States or visas for entry into other Latin-American countries, The only alleged foreign agent known io be in custody at Balboa at present is Dr. Emil Wolff, who is being held for trial after entering the Canal Zone on June 2 with secret codes from the German Consulate in San Francisco. He was en route to Santiago, Chile.
Officials at Balboa said it is inCor. rect to say that only Americans and Panamanians are employed la the Canal Zone, as some 15000 British negroes, are still working in the zone, The Canal Zone authorities, however, are obviously eliminating Germans, Austr us and Italians, the officials United Press.
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