The Archive · 1940

Ex-Gestapo Agent Testifies

e Military Espionage in U.S. Readily Admitted Many Arrests Made by Dies Committee Chicago, Nov. 19. dictas before the Dies Congressional Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, here yesterday, Heinrich Peter "who himself as an ex-Gestapo secret agent, stated that he had received various sums from Germany in return for espionage activities in the United States.

Japan Does Not Intend to Occupy South Part, French Hanoi, Nov, 18.

Officials here today categorically denied the rumours spread by various sources, alleging that a Japanese action in the southern part of Indo-China was imminent.

They stressed that proof of the fact that the rumours are devoid of any foundation whatsoever be seen in a communique published by the Domei News agency and broadcast by the Havas News Agency from Lyons, This communique said:

"Responsible Japan quarters deny the report spread by a foreign news agency, according to which the Japanese navy had been contemplating the eventuality of a Japanese penetration into the Southern zone of French Indo-China."—Havas.

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