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Show oo SPIES ARE HELD FOR CONSPIRACY Had Been Engaged in Supplying Supply-ing Military Information to German Government. New York, Feb. 19. Agents of the department of justice arrested here tonight two men charged with violating violat-ing the federal law against carrying on a military enterprise against a I foreign country. They are accused of conspiring to obtain military information informa-tion in England to be sent to this country and then forwarded to Ger-j manv The men gave their names as Albert Al-bert A. Sander and C harles Wun-enberg. Wun-enberg. The complaint against them was signed by Judge Albert Hand of the United States District court He charged them with conspiring to employ em-ploy agents to obtain maps, photographs photo-graphs and other military informal;' n in England and Ireland for the benefit of Germany. The charges were prepared by John C. Knox, assistant prosecutor in charge of the criminal branch of the department of Justice. Sander, who is 35 years old, is president of the Central Powers War Films Exchange in this city. Wunenberg, 40 years old. is his assistant Counsel for the accused ac-cused said tonight that Wunenberg has been a naturalized citizen of the United States for 25 years. According to William B Offley. divisional di-visional superintendent of the department depart-ment of justice, the men are accused of sending to Great Britain agents' who obtained information ol military j Importance which was transmitted to j this country in letters and packages written in invisible ink. This Infor-' mation. it is alleged was disseminated in the United States to agents of the central powers, but chiefly to those of I Germany. Secret service agents had been, wnrhinK on me case ior monms. inev I began soon after the arrest in England I of George Vaux Bacon, who claimed I to represent American newspapers Ba con's photograph was forwarded to this country bv the British authorities and by means of it. Superintendent Offley Of-fley said the secret service was able to connect him with the operations of Sander and Wunenberg. The federal agents' Investigation is said to have involved at least fifteen so-called newspaper m n empioied by Sander and Y unenberg and ordered by them to England and Ireland. The military data collected by them was brought to this country by some of their members traveling as American citizens, it is charged Women frequently fre-quently were used, sometimes inno-centh. inno-centh. it was said, to carry this information. in-formation. The Ink used in preparing the maps and other documents sent to this country coun-try deceived the British authorities for some time, the federal agents said, because it does not become visible under heat or when the letter Is soaked in water but requires a special spe-cial chemical preparation. Charles A. Oberwager, counsel for the accused, declared that au infor-t infor-t mation obtained b them or their agents in Great Britain and later sent to Germany would be worthless from a militar Btandpolnt because the plans covered either would have been changed or carried out long before the officials in Germany could recene and act upon them. "My c lients have been engaged," he said, "in conducting an exchange ior films and other pictures of the war taken chiefly on the lines of the central cen-tral powers. Theirs has been a legitimate legiti-mate business " |