Show British Smash Huge Nazi Secret Army 1000 Believed Relieved Held In Plot to Wage Bacterial Warfare FRANKFURT Feb 24 UP UP- UP British intelligence officials announced announced announced an an- Monday that they had smashed the biggest Nazi underground underground underground under under- ground army organized since the war which was believed to to be planning bacteriological warfare against the allies An intelligence officer said the use use of a devastating secret weapon definitely was a part of the underground plan and It w wa was wasa a fair assumption that the group was drawing plans to use a bacteria bacteria bacteria bac bac- teria weapon An announcement from headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters of British occupation forces said the two-day two roundup was almost complete and was so successful that as an immediate effective force any underground has ceased to exist Arrest 1000 Among those arrested were Co Walter Valter Teich wartime S. S S. S chief of oC the Baltic states and contact man with the Danish Nazis and Edmund former head of ot the German secret service at Lublin Authorities still de declined to say how many Germans had been ar ar- ar- ar rested Unofficial speculation said the number might exceed 1000 Three out of ot every four of the Nazis sought In the British zone have been caught and the operation operation operation opera opera- tion will be finished soon a formal announcement said The main part of or the operation was in the British zone American authorities took part to a relatively relative relative- ly Jy small extent picking up some men identified as being connected with the underground movement Officials said sald the underground did not have a single leader but several of oC equal rank They said the drive hit the Nazis before they could act on an organized basis but there were indications they had put out feelers toward enlist mm ing clans the S S1 support 1 O ot German e. e U L Stud Study Documents Document The Investigators had not found anything concrete such as a laboratory laboratory laboratory lab lab- oratory to indicate how tar far ar the secret weapon idea had progressed But an intelligence officer who said that was part of the scheme added We Ve know they have been studyIng studyIng studying study- study Ing every kind of oC deviltry and Itis it itis itis is a fair assumption in view of ot the capture of oC a bacteriological expert that the underground was plans to use a bacteria weapon n. n Documents taken from the Nazis were under study in hope of ot establishing more definite in information information In- In formation about the secret weapon Informants said the organization tion had reached a state at which the leaders were talking about when they would start their war and probably would have tried soon to send some kind of oC an ultimatum to the Americans send British Arrests were made in virtually every town of ot any size in the British zone The underground was said to have established cells in nearly all aU of them |