INTERNATIONAL: Scares and Scares

War scares and spy scares go hand in hand. Both sides of the Atlantic last week saw a noteworthy outcropping of the latter.

>The French Line put special guards on watch over the liner Normandie at Le Havre after the Paris mysteriously burned (see p. 64).

>A French firing squad, for the second time within a month, destroyed a spy, this time a German gardener at Vendenheim near Strasbourg, who muttered: "I did not know it was so serious."

>In Berlin two youths convicted of selling military secrets to unnamed foreign agents were beheaded at dawn.

>On trial in London went Joseph Kelly, 30-year-old laborer, accused of taking $150 to sell Germany plans of Britain's mammoth shell factory at Euxton in Lancashire.

>Two Belgian pursuit planes terrified passengers in a German transport which they forced down and searched. German planes had been repeatedly observed flying low over forbidden Belgian fortified areas.

>In Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents.