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Show TEUTONIC SPY SYSTEM SHOWN Complete Operations in America, Amer-ica, Alleged Directors of Plots and Names of Spies Discovered. MAKE LARGE HAUL Government Papers Found in Possession of Von Igel and Many Criminal Dpcu- ments. New York, April 20. The documents docu-ments seized by federal authorities in the office of Wolfe von Igel, return re-turn of which has been demanded by Count von Bernstorff, the German ambassador, remain today In a safe In the office of the United States dlstricc attorney Before returning any of them to the German ambassador, ambassa-dor, .District Attorney Marshall has sent to Washington photographic copies cop-ies of all of them in order that the German ambassador may determine which are official records of the embassy. em-bassy. Persons who have seen the papers say they do not believe Count von Bernstorff will admit that any are official records. The papers are described de-scribed as constituting "the largest haul made by the government since the activities of the agents of the central cen-tral powers In this country were first uncovered." Spy System Revealed. As a result of the seizure of these papers, it was said today, the complete com-plete operations of, an alleged Teutonic Teu-tonic spy system in America would, be revealed, Including the names of tho alleged directors of the plots to destroy commerce and of men who obtained secret information for that purpose. District Attorney Marshall said that, even if it should be proven that the papers are valuable to the German Ger-man embassy, the government will contend for the right to inspect them, and if necessary, use any which are not proved to be official embassy doc-timents. " 4 It is reported that the contents of some of the documents already v( have been communicated to a Fed- u eral grand jury. ( Von Igel Is still held on ball to an- v swor to the charge of complicity In J; the Welland canal plot. t |