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Show WOMAN OPERATOR! IS A TRAITORj Has Transmitted Direct Information In-formation to the German Government Through Postal Telegraph. NEW YORK. Sept. 11. Information has been obtained that Miss Wanda Kreutlngecr, a Postal Telegraph operator, ope-rator, who was taken into custody here today, has transmitted directly to the German government important information infor-mation regarding munition ships, obtained ob-tained from cablegrams and telegrams which passed through her hands, according ac-cording to a statement tonight by federal fed-eral officials. Those transmissions, the statement said, were made in 1914 and 1915. But within the last six weeks, it Is asserted, assert-ed, Miss Kroutingzcr has furnished similar information "to persons she believed to represent the German imperial im-perial government." The operator has been under survoillancc for some time. Miss Kroutingzcr who is a registe: ed enemy alien, told her examiner? she was born in Pozen. Germany, forty-two years ago and has been in the United States twenty years. She has beon employed by tho Postal company for sixteen years, working as an operator opera-tor in the Chicago office until the outbreak out-break of the war, when she obtained a transfer to the Now York office. According to the statement Miss Krcutlngzer recoived no money for her services, doing the'work because of her "love of the homeland." A presidential warrant for her internment in-ternment has been requested, it was announced. |