Show I BIG THEFT Of I AR ARMY MY SUPPLIES Germans Arrested Yanks Under S Suspicion i in in Plot Overseas to Sell Food i and Autol Automobile obile Tire a I C Thursday July 10 ll By The Associated d Press A I plot involving wholesale thefts o oI oC or orf f I f food automobile tires and other troop l I supplies for shipment to Germany German has lias b been en uncovered b by army officers offices r here bere it was learned today when sev several se seV seVeral eral crill Germans who are alleged u uve to toha I ha hasha ve l nd d a hand in the in-the the pl plans n av jr r 9 g J arrested y I Three cars of American bacon and three cars of tires tires' and tubes which were billed through to unoccupied Germany as empties were returned I I I to Coblenz today from the edge o of thc the bridgehead Officers say ay that shipments under various prete pretexts ts have haYe been going on for fort I weeks and possibly months and J they estimated the loss to the army it at several eral million marks Foo Food l For Kor Yank Officers Investigating In the tho plot to tos s ship food Intended for tor American troops on ort olf the Rhine thine Into unoccupied sections of or Germany In carload lots said that other arrests were expected within the next few days das Thc They said there was no wa way at this time to check the amount of ot bacon automobile supplies and other commissary commissar commissary commis commis- sar sary articles which had reached Germany German Germany Ger Ger- I man many beyond the bridgehead through these channels Most of ot the Germans Involved In the I plot are arc employees of oC tho the railroads The Tho officers said that a number of ot Americans also were Investigated but refused to say whether any charges had as yet et been filed against them The officers also refused to give gl the tho rank of ot the tho Americans Involved saying sayIng sayIng say- say Ing that tho the case was still und under r In- In Six cars loaded dc with supplies which were caught Thursday on their wa way to Germany had been billed to a German GerI Gorman Ger- Ger man who was employed as a sweeper I In a a. station on the cast east bank of the Rhine near Coblenz From this station the cars loaded with food tood were shipped Continued on Page Pago 2 HUGE ARMY SUPPlY ROBBERY IS REVEAlED Continued from pa page e 1 through the tho neutral zone zono to Cassel and other points in ermany In some cas case casel the officers say the cars were billed as empties while In other cases the they were billed as containing containing containing con con- fertilizer t lu Demand American goods particularly food and rubber are aro In great c demand In InGerman Germany German bacon canned milk and flour bringing enormous prices In Hamburg Berlin and other cities a package containing twenty American Ameri Ameri- can ean has hns for months been sellIng sell sell- ing Ingo at from 10 to 15 mar marks II The Tho officers say that these the and much of the American food which has been veiling selling in German cities all came through the American area and were Intended for tor American troops In to the occupied territory Fr From m what point the shipments were made mado the tho officers would not say but Jut declared that they had positive evi l dence denee that the tho food being traced and that which had been recovered did not t form rm part parl of tho the supplies which had been sold to Germany German by the army au au- au |