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Show ARMY OF SPIES 1 1 10 BE ARRESTED Every Reservist Has Been! Listed by the Secret Service of the Country. WASHINGTON. March 25. Every channel of government activity tonight to-night worked under pressure to provide pro-vide "spy insurance" for the nation in the event of war with (ic-rmany. An army of secret service men and agents of the department of justice, spread I ing a dragnet from the Atlantic to thel Pacific, and from Canada to the Mexican Mex-ican border, had under surveillance thousands of "spy suspects" ami German Ger-man svmpathizers. A declaration of ueiwecu we t nuea states ana Germany, it was learned tonight, will be followed immediately Ly wholesale arrests and internment Among the thousands under surveillance are , va-i number of German reservists caught in tin United States at the outbreak out-break of the European war and unable to get back to the German army. Every Ev-ery reservist has been listed by the secret service agents after a vast amount or labor, and a war declaration declara-tion would be the signal lor their immediate im-mediate apprehension and internment Plans are under war for seeral great internment camps in various parts of the country, where the (lerman aliens will be placed under guard. i In addition to these reservists, the1 set ret serv ice agents have under sur- veiiiance a vast army of naturalized Germans, whose activities during the; recent crisis have brought them under j suspicion. Many of these are wealthy and influ-j enlial men in communities throughout' the country As an example of this! class of suspects, It was learned tonight to-night that a secret service guard has; bern intsalled about the home and bus-, iness establishments of a millionaire' German American in Washington. |