Show WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE IS I Spy SLOGAN Suspected German Agent Caught Smuggling Code Letters to U. U S. S V By United Press A ANEW NT NEW W YORK YOnI Fel Feb 0 Federal IL Federal au authorities authorities au- au were confident nt their careful search of ot the liner Nieuw Amsterdam had bad netted on ono one German agent Rient Sobering sec second nd chief steward steward steward stew stew- ard of tho the Holland Holland- Holland American liner was held tonight on a charge of smuggling smuggling smug smug- gling mail mall into the United States under under un un- un- un der tho the espionage law lie He lIeV V Is j is also charged with conspiring tf to smuggle I Imal mai mal V Sobering was arraigned V today I in Newark N N. J. J before United States Commissioner John II Matthews and failed to obtain bail Officials r refuse fuse to say bay where their prisoner is detained Sobering was arrested when he at attempted attempted attempted at- at tempted to hide a letter in the steamers steamer's steamers steamer's steam steam- steam steam-I ers er's smoking room as government I agents were boar boarding the vess vessel l. l A chief chiff yeoman of or the naval Intelligence department made the catch The They y yeomans yeoman's name was withheld ld The letter which was plainly a co code e message bore no address While the text was not ma made e public these two excerpts were were given out to show the general nature of the communication 1 I 1 sent you idne nine nino cables Where do o we go from here Answer 2 I sent you three cables Where hEre hEredo do we go from here Answer r. r Sobering said he lived in Admitting he lie was a native of German Germany Germany Ger Ger- man many he lie insisted he had not been In Inthe Inthe inthe the fatherland for eighteen years The prisoner insisted he knew nothing nothIng nothing noth noth- ing regarding the contents of the letter let let- ter He explained that he received it from his sister and that she got it from froma a Mrs who claimed she got I it from a a. man named Debour SoberIng Sobering Sobering Sober Sober- ing said he intended to give it to Middleton l Cobb of ot Boston as in instructed in- in l d |