Evening star., 1942-11-04
Chilean Government
To Ask Emergency
Law 10 End Espionage
lnter-Americun Group
Votes to Publish U. S.
Memo on Spy Ring
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SANTIAGO, Chile, Nov. 4.-Latin
American pressure on Axis agencies
was frightened today by a series Of
developments. and it was learned
that the government of neutral
Chile would ask for emergency
legislation to combat espionage at
the special session Of the Congress
opening November Is.
Over Chilean objections the In
ter-American Committee for Po-
itical Defense of the Hemisphere
voted 5-to-1 at Montevideo yester-
day to publish Washington men,
orandum charging that Nazi spy
ring had sent detailed military in
formation from Chile to Germany
and had sought by bribery to OBJ
tain secrets concerning the Panama
Canal.
Interior Minister Paul Morales
said publication of the memoran-
dunn was contrary to the interests
of the continental defense" and
would interfere with investigations
directed by President Juan Antonio
Rios.
Pledges Chile to Neutrality.
IT wish to state categorically,"
the Minister said, that the govern
inent of Chile has Investigated with
exactness and quickness every ac-.
cusation made of any activities con-
trary to the clear policy of the
President of the republic, aimed at
the end that neither the territory
nor the jurisdictional waters Of
Chile will be used for activities
against the American countries"
He pointed out that a powerful
clandestine radio station had been
seized and contended there had
been no undue delay in Chilean ac-
ton on the memorandum since 1t
was presented to Chiles Foreign Of
flee by United States Ambassador
Claude G. Bowers, June 30.
The memorandum formed the basis
of a speech October by Sumner
Welles, United States Undersecretary
of State, In which he charged that
Argentina and Chile were still per-
pitting their neighbors to be
stabbed in the back by Axis ennis
saries."
Listed 20 Nazi Spies.
It identified 20 persons as active
In German espionage in Chile and
other countries. Those named in
cluded Ludwig Won Hohlen, air at
tache OF the German Embassy in
Santiago, who was said to have di-
tected the clandestine radio station
PYL which transmitted the mes
Bages, and Wilhelm Won Pochham-
nler, former Consul General at VAL
paraiso, who is now attached to the
German Embassy in Buenos Aires.
Chile's delegate to the Montevideo
session, Valdez Florez, cast the one
negative vote on the question of
publication, proposed by Carl B.
6paeth, United States delegate. The
Argentine representative refrained
from voting.
Ambassador Bowers was reported
In informed quarters last night to
have renewed President Roosevelts
ulV1CdLlOll W 1lCSluCllt ItlOS W tlSlC
the United States. President Rios
had planned such a journey this
autumn, but Cancelled the arrange
ments at the height of Chilean dis
satisfaction over the Welles speech.
German Code Clerk Arrested.
Horst Ketter, German consulate
code clerk, was held at Valparaiso
for questioning by police investigat-
ing reported NaN spy ring there.
President Ramon Castillo of Ar
gentina sent his military aide, Col.
Rafael Sola, to the home of former
President Augustin P Justo to ex-
press the Governments displeasure
at Nationalist demonstration yes
terday against Justo's advocacy of
the United Nations cause. Eggs and
tomatoes we're hurled at the former
president as he left luncheon
where he declared it would be sui
cidal for argentina to withhold her
support.