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Show w! secret service Ik hunts woman chief of spies fjMt $an Francisco, Dec. 27. A worn- F,BL n. designated only as "II," and ImK aild to be prominent In the Genaan RJM secret service, directed tho activities jpMK of Franz Schulenbcrg, alleged must iH ec spy held hero on a presidential CK warrant, according to Iiiforiiiiitlon di- pjHL TtilRcd by federal officials. Schulen- iK berg is said to havo been active in fHp plans to destroy bridges and public B. buildings In Canada and shipping P and warehouses In Pacific ports. .'E Officials said that the woman bare- h ty escaped arrest hero four weeks (ago, the day before Schulenberg was captured. The, cluo to her part in Schulenberg operations was revealed t lit a letter found among his effects. It Instructed Schulenberg to meet P ller in Los Angeles. Tho loiter wa3 postmarked Cleveland, Ohio. Investigation Investi-gation showed, officials said, that the woman had been an agent of Wolf von Igel, former secrotary to Franz von Papen, military attache of the German embassy at Washington and alleged head of tho Gorman espionage espion-age system in this country. She was described as a woman of birth and education, a brunette, 35 years old. Ace: ding to federal officials the woman s"tit Schulenberg to the United Uni-ted States In 1014 for tho alleged purpose ot assisting in the maintenance mainte-nance of coiitiaband wireless stations sta-tions supported by tho German government gov-ernment for tho purpose ot gaining I military Information nud transmitting transmit-ting It to Iierlln. Further rovelatlons concerning Schulenborg's activities disclosed showed that in February, 1015, he inserted an advertisement In Spokano newspapers looking to tho purchase 'l-------------------------------M-M ! HH I mWte '' "-'.' . -to iLU: - ;" v f I . ... . 7i.M.M,V l.l'CV flATIOS f WHO WUdi A-k'PIJ.VU J .'.'(.tOSUCO AND JUIdlOT" . " at Tin': liVitio thi;.ti:u, mo.nday kvp.m.no. of a tract of land on which to colonize colon-ize 200 or 300 Spanish families. These families, federal officials said, were Hindus and the purpose of their colonization was to pornilt them easy ontranco Into Canada, where they were to obtain military Information and facts concerning tho movements of Canadian vessels, to assist In the raider warfare conducted recently in the Pacific Ocean by tho Germans. The colonization plan did not materialize. mater-ialize. Some of Schulenberg's activities, according to the authorities, have been traced to Ham Chandra, prominent promi-nent Hindu on trial here with thirty other persons charged with attempting attempt-ing to foment a rovolt against Ilrlt-Isr Ilrlt-Isr rulo in India. Ram Chandra made several payments of money to Schulenberg, officials said. Schulenberg, according to federal officials, was a deserter from tho German army and had not been actuated ac-tuated by patriotism for tho fatherland father-land In his alleged activities, but had performed thorn only In hope of financial fi-nancial gain. Tliuy said ho would not admit his connection with the woman agent. o |