Show I U l S. S AGENTS BLOCK GERMAN GERMANI I 1 ANTIWAR MOVE I 1 I Reorganization of Sabotage Propaganda in ill This Country Coun- Coun i- i try Nipped in Bud I ENEMY lY ACTIVITIES O ONLY Y SPORADIC NOW NO Thirty Arrested and Interned for Complicity in New Conspiracy ashIngton ran Jan 10 Through 10 Through Int Intercepted Inter Inter- r- r communications and anil c found on a 3 score or more of or arrested allons ullon government a agents have discovered discovered discovered dis dis- covered a concerted effort cHort to reorganize German sabotage and antiwar propaganda ganda In this country countr The Tho movement mo was a broken up ul and nd enem enemy t activities now are re believed to to sporadic cases carried ar ely h by pro-German pro sympathizers mp without guidance co from Ironi a central headquarters head head- quarters Kept l Secret Ms was 33 disclosed toda today by govern o ment officials who ho declined however to all nil the details surrounding alies a a. as s lies ores ri 9 of oC measures me recently taken taleen to pr prevent vent tho rebuilding of or a l unified en enemy enemy en- en emy amy spy system It Is known Jenot that about aboul thirty Germans and a few Scandinavians Scan Scan- have ha been been arrested on sUs- sUs of complicity In the new neVI plot IlOt Tho Germans have ha been Interned anti and tj oj Scandinavians sent ment ent out of or the thet t country countr Somo Some Americana arc JJ and are being closely watched The evidence gathered In the roundup roundup roundup round round- up Indicated that a few leaders whoso whose identity has not been disclosed but who are believed to be neutral subjects tried to communicate to-communicate with a number of or agitator agitators agi agi- located mainly In eastorn eastern senor sea sen- ports or ts In Industrial centers and In the thc extreme west to lop develop operation co-operation among them Sabotage was to h bo 00 conducted systematically I and propaganda for tor peace pe I or dissemination of or pessimistic war re reports re- re ports were to be stimulated under di direction dl- dl of or a recognized head There w 1 to o Indications al also o that the head head- was a to gather bits of oC information tion from all aU parts of or tho the country and It to German Germany through a north European neutral neutra b by code communications carried by hy members of or ship crews or 01 other means Self Seif d Spin OI Hundreds of or self appointed spies now ar ee to bo be at work in the United I States State but officials s dl disclaim that the they worry much about them Many are ue uel l ald said to be members of or the Industrial Workers of or the Ule World Word which has carried car car- ried on organized de destruction under stimulation in some cases the tho government govern govern- ment meat charges with Ith German mone money Fires and explosions which have ha occurred oc oc- recently re are said sald to be bt the work of ot Individual cranks or paran paranoiac lacs probably pro-German pro In their sympathies thies 8 but without direction of or a master organization |