The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-18

AASiNs sway over the Indian Ocean would require considerable use of the Japa- nese fleet and air force. It is a question whether Japan has enough to spare for that and still dominate the western Pacific It would require a large Japanese force, continuous ly in operation. to break off the supply line which the United States has established to New Zealand and Australia.
 If the Pacific fleet is weakened too much for Indian ocean opera tions, the United States Navy has a chance to Whittle down the Japa- ,nese outposts in the Western Pacific one by one in steady process of Ireconquest. The Navy's raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands sug- gested the pattern.
 If Hitler tries to drive through to Suez and Japan the Indian Ocean to met him, Japan's rear might be exposed to the United States.
 Spies Got Information
 New York, Feb. 18-(UP)-I h. formation about United States air. craft plants and a cryptic refer ence to Wake island were contained in letters seized at Bermuda by British authorities and introduced in evidence today at the trial of five men and woman charged with serving Germany as spies.
 The letters were identified by Charles Appel, Federal Bureau of Investigation handwriting expert, as having been written on a type writer belonging to Kurt Frederick Ludwig, principal defendant.
 One letter contained the nota- tion: Douglas Aircraft Co., About 100 bombers ordered by U. S. army"
 Another reported that at the end of November. 1940, 5000 persons were employed Ey Continental Motors, Inc," and the company had a backlog of thrilled orders totaling s50,000,000
 The reference to Wake island was on a slip of paper which contained only the note: Pacific insular de- IeIlSHS-WdkC lSldllQ N!D.
 The letters were addressed to persons in Spain and Portugal who the government contends, were members of the German Gestapo serving as links between German spies in the United States and Ber- lin headquarters.
 The typewriter on which they were written was seized among Ludwig's effects and formerly be- 1onged to Ulrich Won der Osten who led the German spy ring in the United States under Spanish passport which identified him as Julio Lopez" He was killed in a taxi accident.
 SUBMARINES DRIVEN OFF
 Willemstad, Curacao, Feb. 18- (UP)-Enemy submarines appeared off the coast of Aruba today but were driven off by United States Eombers before they could cause any damage. the Netherlands news agency Aneta said.
 The submarines were sighted from both land and sea but as soon a; the American bombers got into the air they submerged so the planes could not carry out concentrated attack.
 (Yesterday noon a lone subma- rine was sighted on the outskirts o1 the harbor of Oranjestad, on Aruba but it disappeared when American and Dutch planes took to the air)
 The operation of enemy subma- rines in the Caribbean became known Monday when they sunk ol damaged eight oil tankers.
 Bombers of the American ant Dutch forces have been patrolinf constantly since the attack ald i was believed that official report! would show that the number O U-boats had been reduced througf bombings and depth charges.
 PRINCE AWAITS HEARING
 New York, Feb. 18-(UP)-Princt Franz Hohenlohe, son of Princes. Stephanie Hohenlohe Schillings' fuerst, is awaiting hearing by al enemy alien board at Ellis Island it was learned today.
 P. E. FoxWOrth, executive direc' tor of the Federal Bureau of Inves. tiga ton in the New York area, al. though refusing to confirm or der! that Hohenlohe had been taken into custody, which was learned iron another source, said the FBI office here had seized 576 enemy alien! since Dec. '.
 These included 279 Japanese, 21. Germans and 86 Italians, he said.
 Hohenlohe's mother, a friend O Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, former German consul in San Francisco has been reported interned. Hel son had made several attempts t