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Show FRENCH ARREST -ISIXIMSPIES PARIS. Nor. 21 (UP) The arrest of six spies on the northeastern frontier near France's famous Mag. Inot line Of defenses was linked by authorities today with the alleged plot of the mysterious Cagoularda (Hooded Ones) to overthrow the popular front government. The spies confessed that they gave information concerning fortifications forti-fications and troops on the French ' side of the Rtver Rhine to nasi agents in Freiburg, Germany. The alleged leader of tha apy ring. German named Dengler, waa arrested ar-rested at Huningue just as ha was about to flee acrosa tha frontier. Two were arrested at a meeting of Colonel Francois de La Rocque's French social party which reportedly reported-ly is an outgrowth of the outlawed fascist organization Croix da Feu (Cross of Fire). The spies belonged to a group from which the Cagou-larda Cagou-larda had acquired many members. All Locked Up The six spies were locked up In the military prison at Besancon. Huningue is tha "Achilles" heel f the French defenses ainca it is not fortified In accordance with treaty stipulations following the Franco-Prussian war which the Veisaille Uealy neglected lu erase. Franca has scrupulously respected the area. An army passing through Switzerland Switzer-land at the only point where natural nat-ural defenses do not protect the route in the lowlands about Basle could drive through unfortified Huningue and arrive behind the Maginot line. - Leftist quarters in Paris also wondered whether a manifesto Issued Is-sued in the name of the Duka de Guise, pretender to the French ''throne," was part of the plot of the Cagoulards. ' Ouster Denied The duke's son, the count of Paris, reportedly waa connected with the "hooded men" and asked to leave Switzerland. The count's spokesman, Pierre de La Rocque, denied this. Leftist quarters pointed out that De La Rocque. since the count jfcklr Ai-m .n.'.L.n. I... year from the duke, haa ahown a tendency to break with the royalist roy-alist action Francaise party which sponsored the duke's manifest? proclaiming pro-claiming that "I have decided to reconquer the throne of my fathers." fath-ers." The duke's manifesto was Issued In Paris at the same time that leading French monarchists were gathered at Versoix, Switzerland, near the French frontier, to meet the count, who was said to be the "real brains" of tha monarchist movement |