Evening star., 1933-12-20

| was there, they said. they found the
wireless station and the movie cameras
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. Noise
Salmon, Polish medical students,
yielded additional documents to the
police, according to their announce
ment.
Apartments Are Sealed.
The American and Canadian couples
apartments were sealed by police pend
ing a search by Examining Magistrate
Benon as were the living quarters Of
the other six persons arrested.
Half the prisoners were women, the
arresting police revealed.
The prisoners were seized In raids in
various parts Of France after incrim-
mating documents had been gathered
by the French Counter Espionage
Service.
Secrecy covering the mysterious or
but it was believed there had been q
teak in plans for Frances closely
guarded frontier Notifications which
she intends to extend.
Only yesterday, War Minister
Edouard Daladier announced the gov
ernment would seek credits to expand
her iron ring" of border defenses ito
the sea-"
For three years, workers in the Metz
and Lauter border regions have been
employed on a steel and concrete line
of Notifications 125 miles long from
which army leaders say a continuous
barrage could be laid down.
The roundup is the climax of a two
year search for spies, particularly along
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cases of espionage have been reported
in which several individuals have been
convicted.
The most recent prosecution resulted
in the conviction of three men at Thion-
vile yesterday.
Austrian Is Sentenced.
An Austrian, Clement BruSs, was SEN
fenced to five years Imprisonment on
a charge of receiving map OF French
Notifications from Joseph Schohn,
workman employed in the building Of a
tort. Schohn was sentenced to serve
two years in prison. Louis Doll, an
| other workman, was fined.
The revelation that an international
band reported to include Italians, Yugo-
slavs. Czechoslovakans, Scandinavians
and Frenchmen-operating with women
accompliceS--WaS the elimination Of
eight months Of trailing suspects by
300 crack detectives and secret service
men after they had received a secret
tip
Salmon and his wife had been under
surveillance since last April. when. po-
lice said. they came to Paris from Ger
many Authorities said they contiscat-
ed quantity of documents in the cou-
pies room.
Additional information leading up to
the arrests was reported to have been
obtained from two Of SIS Italians round
ed up a week ago on charges of wide
spread robberies in different parts of
France
Salmon was arrested, it was learned,
by 10 police inspectors who waited In
his rooming house. patronized by for
eigners, and seized him when he re-
turned from the hospital.
German Market Seen.
A declaration that a German espion-
age service was buying maps of the
Notifications along the Rhine and
samples OF French weapons at high
prices was published in France In Oc-
tober-
A woman known as La Belle Sophie"
was arrested on charge of possessing
macnlne gun Stolen Dy french SOL
dier in another incident of the many
reported in recent months in November.
Her fate and that of IL others ar
rested In the same affair was kept
secret.
Reports have been published that
Nazi headquarters at Saarbruecken was
the center Of espionage activities on the
frontier.
Spying in the Alpine Notifications
along the Italian border also has been
openly suspected since the mysterious
suicide Of French commissioned
officer at Nice In November
PASSPORT DATA SECRET.