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Show GERMAN AGENTS ARE OPERATING IN SOUTH, REPORT BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 6. With the arrest of a white man and negro here late yesterday, federal agents who have the two men in custody have announced they have evidence of a movement by German agents to incite negroes in the south. These agents, the federal authorities say, have worked particularly in Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, the Carollnas and Mississippi. Posing as Bible salesmen and ministers of the gospel, federal agents declare, they have urged the negroes to migrate to Mexico, telling them that special trains would carry them there April 15. A negro arrested by federal authorities at the Birmingham railway station is accused ac-cused of having made speeches to fellow members of his race, in which ,he urged them to denounce the government and turn their efforts in behalf of Germany. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 6. A Columbia, Co-lumbia, Tenn., special dispatch saya Andrew An-drew J. Armstrong, a negro, is in custody upon the charge of rebellion ana treason,., in default of $20,000 bond. Hugo Schmidt, an agent of the Deutsches bank. Later in the night Frederick Scheindl, the clerk from whom Koenig obtained the telegrams and documents belonging to the National City bank, was taken to the federal building. It was said he had been found in the office of Carl Heynan, : former German vice consul at Vera Cruz, Mexico. |