Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-07-10 | Page 2 | U. S. Connected with 'Spy' Case

0. S. CONNECTED WITH PY' CASE Jap Prisoner Left Siberian Maps With American Embassy; Em-bassy; Yankees Are Cleared TOKIQ, July f (Pv The Associated Associat-ed Presa) In i-onnection with the .case of T. uyama, arrested late In June charged with attempting to sell military maps, the American embassy toda; turned o er to n representative -i Oyams some too maps of fi srls Which Oyams had left temporal il In 'the otfi.-e of tn..nr fhnrles Lturnett, 'the American mllitaity attache, saying he wanted to sell them Before being able to regain possession of the maps, which Oolonel Burnetl decided were of no vHlue. uyama was arrested. Edward Poll. American charge d'affaires, d'af-faires, told th foreign minister that Oyama describing himself a o mei- hnt of Khabarovsk, Siberia; called !at the embassy accompanied by another an-other Japanese and offered to soil the Siberian maps, on examination of Which showed them to have been formerly for-merly thn property of the Ku.cslan general staff There was nothing to show, Accotdtng to Mr Poll, thnt Ihev were the property 01 Japan or differed In any way from th .se procurable In 'ladlvoMok and elsewhere. I'ecldtng that the nmps were of no Intercut, ,m assistant attache informed in-formed OyaniS they were not wanted and recreated him to call as soon as possible to recover his property Oyama never appeared. 00