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Show FEUD BETRAYAL OF 1)1 SECRET Germans Call for Arrest of Chemists Who Fled to America COLOGNE. Feb. 21. Warants have been Issued for the apprehension of four chomlcal and dye experts formerly former-ly employed by FrlederWi Bayer & Company of Leverskursi n, charging breach of contract hp-I lrtrtyul 'of commercial aecretx. They n.re in-ctors Joseph Klachelnnder, Ilelnrlch Jordan. 1 uto Rung and Max Engleniann. They are re.icr1bcd as old and trusted trust-ed employee. Thoy ai charged with slKiitng contracts with the DuPont do Nemours Company of Wilmington. Del., which not onl bind them to liter li-ter the company's employ, but ulao placo at lte dlHpoaal other valuable con6lderation Thoy are also chargoil with Illegally' appropriating valuable reclp&s, form- Ulart, off-., t,, v hi, :, I I,,. .v i.'ocior CLuase, oi 'iricn, repre sentlng the American company, is salt to have made the arrangements wltl tho four experts, and Is reported also to have been Instrumental in bi the transit acroas the German-Dutet trontler of a trunk containing documents, docu-ments, drawings and other scientific material. Dutch authorities discovered ihe trunk which they seised and ordered or-dered It returned to the piosocutlng attorney at Cologne, upon the latter'a requisition. Flachskander and Runge sailed for New York December SI, where they were permitted to land Tho whereabouts of Kngllemann and Jordan ts unknown. DuI'OXTS Itt:PLY. WILMIN'UTON, Del, Fob. 21. The DuPont Company declined 'for the presont" to comment on the Issuing of warrants in Cologne for the arreel of four chemical and dye experts emplQ)rOd by tho company on rhargen of betraying commercial secret "Of the four chemists named in the warrants, only two have arrived. Tbey ;iro Doctor Joseph Flnchslandor and Dr Otto Runge. Dr Flachslander denied that uny riapers or chemical formulas were brought here by himself or his asso-lates. asso-lates. H0 deolorad reports that a Dr Runge of Zurich h.-id smuggled locuments acrosa the Dutch frontier ivere untrue. He aeserted be had not broken faith lth his former employers, Fi I lrl( h 3ayer & Company of loverskureen, The charge of breach of contract, ie characterised, as "an absurdity," i(sertln that his contract lth ttiatj ompany expired December 31. |