European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                West germans smash soviet spy ring biggest9 since 45 35 seized Bonn april 10 is West German govern Lent today announced. Threshing of the largest Post Iwar communist spy ring in Kest  at Dawn Federal Linal police arrested 35ersons. Eight other suspect spies for whom arrest warrants had been. Issued slipped ugh the Bonn government s vice Chancellor Franz Bluecher Aid the ring was the largest so Iet secret Cream Patton to exist in Western Germany since 1945." g Bluecher said his government swoop had achieved almost Complete Surprise. The ring has been wiped tit he  issued. The Roundup was ordered by the Federal office for Protection of the Constitution. Arrest warrants charge fag espionage and High treason were in trued by the chief Federal pros Tutor. A ring was said to have had to important sections of Ger Iman Industry although no leading industrialists were directly  Hans Egidi director of the write poor ministry s Security Section said ring conducted across the Board  they were not Booty interested s in Allied armaments but also in  political and economic. Among those arrested were Fried Rich Brann Kaemper who was on ii acted with the Union Lor Germany chemical industries in Bonn or. I Alfred Kroth former communist Deputy to the now defunct Biz Ona economics Council and a Munich Tlle wholesaler identified Only Strahl. Egidi declared that the red spying was directed by soviet officers of East Berlin through an Organ action known As the soviet zone Stit ution for scientific economic  Jedi revealed that Walter bulb by East German communist Boss a Wilhelm Zaisser chief of the dread East zone secret police Vadiu direct hand in the ring proper tons Stine suspect or. Franz Hendren cont. On Page 1g, col. 5 new York april id a i Stock Market after declining it moderately today rallied slight to with most Price changes f Rae of a Dollar a share either Washington april 10 state department said today Ussia has promised to obtain the release of sans seized by the North communists at the out of the korean War nearly Brae years ago. Most of the 13catholic or methodist mis Arle. Washington april 10 a Senate today unanimously Ved president Eisenhower s nation of mrs Oveta culpa 48, Texas newspaper pair to be the nation s firs try of health education 1 welfare making her the 10th it member. I at e i l l a iii., april 10two convicts were burned today1 and 12 Othersall Cally rescued As fire toy High winds swept the factory of the Illinois Penitentiary Here. European edition weather forecast partly Cloudy with Coaler tempera Ture Over France the Low countries and Northern mid Central  Cloudy with intermittent rain in Southern Germany and  in the Alps. Clondy with intermittent rain Over Northern Italy Southern Italy partly Cloudy. Air weather Senrick unofficial publication of the . Armed forces in Europe volume 10, number 356 5 cents a copy _ $1.25 a month saturday april 11, 1953 pm Swap set to Start april 21 r Al.  Al  arms Ai due for Bonn Washington. April 10 car Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has received assurances that the. . Will help rearm  units As soon As the six nation european defense. Community treaty is ratified. The pledge was stated in a com Munique last night at the conclusion of the three Days of conferences the Chancellor has had wit president Eisenhower v and Secre tary of state. John Foster Dulles. Under the treaty thus far Rati fied Only by the West German parliamentary. Lower House Ger Many would provide some 12 Divi Sions of troops. The Chancellor was Given a Assurance that the United states editors will seek visit to Russ slave Camps London april 10 up a group of american newspaper editors who visited Moscow left tonight by plane for new York on the last Lego a trip that has taken them 20,000 Miles. The nine journalists and the tour director held a press conference at the Savoy hotel Here shortly before their departure and related their impressions of their Moscow visit. The editors said they had seemed Ato sense a definite feeling of Relief Tiong the people of Moscow As a result of the apparent lessening int Horez return from Russ cure,9 hides out in Paris Paris april 10 up communist Leader Maurice Thorrez limping badly and his left Arm hanging uselessly despite his Complete cure during 30 months treatment in the soviet Union returned to France today and hid out  secret head quarters in the French capital. The 53-year-old general Secretary of what was once the Kremlin s strongest instrument in Western Europe went to great pains to avoid any Welcome upon his return to his native France from Moscow. He climbed off the private coach which Cost the communist party an estimated $5,000 at St. Quentin in Eastern France soon after the Nord express bringing him from Moscow crossed Over the Frontier from Belgium after traversing soviet Russia. Poland East Ger Many and West Germany. With his wife beside him an fellow politburo member Laurent cont on Page 16, col. � crash of Airliner  Kingston Jamaica april10 up thirteen persons were killed today when a Caribbean International airways Catolina Pas Senger plane plunged into the sea after taking off for the Cayman is lands. It was Jamaica s worst air  survivor was it col reming ton Hobbs who is scheduled to Leone of the officials in charge of arrangements in Westminster Abbey for Queen Elizabeth s Coronation in London june 2.among those killed were to fobs wife and her brother Wing cmdr Owen Roberts owner of the air line. Like daughter like Mother Oakland calif., april 10 up an Rawand Mother drove he daughter to the Hospital to have a baby yesterday and stayed to have one herself. Mrs. Vivian Sulezich 38, and her daughter mrs. Patricia Silvia 19, occupied adjoining , had boys. Recent Days of tension Between East and West in Berlin earlier James Wick Leader of the group said he would make a formal request to soviet authorities to let . Newsmen visit soviet concentration Camps. Suggestion at part Wick said he unofficially proposed such a visit during a party Given in the group s Honor at the soviet Hall of journalists in Moscow. He said the answer to the re quest was of course we have no concentration Camps Only prisons for criminals As your country  Wick said he replied that map shave been published in the . Showing the location of concentration  the soviets replied your maps Are false they Are anti soviet propaganda Wick  said the soviets who replied there were no concentration Camps in the soviet Union have no author Ity but we shall make a formal request for such a  would Supply military equipment to the european d of e n s e Community to assist in equipping the German contingents once the treat has been ratified the joint com Munique said. V these other agreements were announced in the 1,500-word statement issued two hours after the final White House meeting 1soviet Russia s rulers could furnish no better proof of their Good will than by permitting free elections in the soviet zone of Germany and releasing the Hun front. On Page in col s . Stands Pat on pm policy United nations n.y., april 10 ins the . Declared with unmistakable finality in the United nations today that a korean Armi Stice is possible Only on Honor Able terms guaranteeing the voluntary repatriation of All War prisoners. . Ambassador Ernest a. Gross rejected the whole pattern of soviet Russia s Andrei y. Vishin sky s peace overtures in the political committee yesterday including a cease fire in Korea on the basis of Poland s proposal and the soviet bid for a five Power peace  directing his main attack against Vishinsky s insistence that the Geneva convention providing for the unconditional return of All cont. On Page 16, col. 3 blackout on Farouk Stamps Cairo april 10 a Egypt ministry of communications decreed today that sex King Farouk s image be obliterated with three Black lines from a Large Quantity of postage Stamps still to be issued. Foe asks in to resume full talks Mun san april 10 a the communists agreed to Day to Trade sick and wounded prisoners beginning april 21, and then proposed a re sumption of the Long stalled armistice negotiations. Both sides were expected to sign today an agreement calling for the Exchange of about 5,800 ailing reds for 600 Allied prisoners including 120americans, 20 British and 15 French turks greeks stitch an canadians. The rest Are South koreans. The allies Are to turn back5,100 North koreans and 700 Chi  Mark Clark United nations far East commander tonight approved the final draft of the agreement and authorized a Liaison officers to sign it. The reds have also indicated they reset to sign it tomorrow. It had originally been expected the agree ment would be signed today but there were last minute details to work out. Forced repatriation in calling for a return to the armistice table the communists gave no sign of yielding on the principle of forced repatriation of some 50,000 pcs who balk at re turning to red  was Allied refusal to return such prisoners that ruptured the negotiations on oct. 8. 1952. Communist Liaison officers Atman Mun Jom in proposing a re sumption of the talks declare the principle of repatriation of All pcs after an armistice  they reiterated that the to cont. On Page 16, col. 5 common not Liaison officers leave pan Mun Jom Trace talk site and take off for their american made Sedan. In negotiators have been travelling by helicopter. United