Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-06-04 | Page 1 | Germans Flash Secrets of U. S. to Berlin by Way of Mexico

I' fera FDgDbCd teu3fe if ! D ' : V cr? frT) nD n nn7 " r? nn 7 -m-Bmmi-'k m-i--mo RIISIIED TO UI1ES Arrival , of U, J5; Naval Forces in England Is Believed Tipped Off by Teutons in N. Y. y International News Serviee. NEW YOBK, June 4. In the arrest today of a 23-year-old German student, federal authorities au-thorities believe they closed in on the trail of German agents in thie country who have maintained an "underground mail system" into Mexico, transmitting military in- . formation thence to Berlin by secret wireless station. The arrival of American naval forces in British waters, it is believed, be-lieved, was tipped off in advance by German agents here. The federal fed-eral probe now going on will seek to determine whether the Mexican mail system may not have been the means of sending news of the departure of the flotilla to Wil-' lesmstrsNse. 1 - Following the arrant today by Detective George Barnitr.et of the neutrality squad all information regarding the man exeept that he came here from Nova Scotia, where he had. been in an internment intern-ment camp, was refused. Discovery Discov-ery of documents in the young German's rooms led to the placing of a technical charge against him for violation of postal laws bearing bear-ing on competition with the. German Ger-man postal system.