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Show AIRES! GERMANS ill GOBLENZ m FRAUD CHARGES I VOBLBNZ, Tuesday, July 22. (By! the Associated Press) Sixty Germans' from Cologne, Berlin and other cities were arrested here tonight by army intelligence officers in connection with an alleged plot to defraud the govern-, ment of millions of marks by eliminating elimin-ating competition at auctions of army , supplies. Intelligence ofiiccrs Bald the alleged al-leged fraud was accomplished through .li organization, most of whose mem I bers are now under arrest, that kepi competitors from bidding at auctions i where salvaged array material was sold. On some days the auction sales i amounted to fifteen and twenty million mil-lion marks, most of the material going to men belonging to the men of the or-: or-: ganization. I American soldiers sent into th I Crowds dressed in plain clothes, at I auctions, aecording to officers, repeat-i edly were offered Iarcre sums of money I not to bid ugainst members of the or-' or-' ganizatlon. Material sold to members of the organization, or-ganization, whereby possible, will not be delivered. |