SPIES IN GERMANY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 16 March 1912, Page 5

SPIES IN GERMANY.

MASQUERADIXG IX UNIFORM. The reverence for tho military uniform which is so general throughout Germany is being made good use of by foreign spies, for repeated cases have occurred recently In wliicli men masquerading in tho uniform of a military offiror have succeeded without difficulty in obtaining access to military depots and other places to which civilians would be'denied entrance. The latrst incident of this kind occurred when an individual dressed in the uniform of an infantry officer appeared nt J o'clock in tho morrimr at the watch-house of a military railway from Berlin to .Tuterbog, and cross-questioned the soldier in chareo for half an hour an to his duties and the working of the line. He coolly examined all naners and documents within sisht. and" then toolc lii.i i departure, without arousing tho susnicions of the man in chnnre. A few hours later, during tlie sol'lier's absence, the watch-house was broken into, the contents ransacked, and several important documents relntiivr to th* l vork'iirr p f the line in case of pmljil-isntion-were found tn linv disannearod. Tt was only then thai; t'"> soldier recollected that the "round oflic-r" who had in«noct»d liis post was of foreign iippearance, with a southern tyne of countenance and muHon-chii) vliMcor*. Germans express rrrwt indiLMintion nt tlie«e operations of snies. but mrssn-res receiver! from Warsaw, pnnnumunir that a colonel "f the German General Stuff and another Gorman subject have been sentenced in throe and two venr.i' inmriconment respectively bv HuVinn military courts for espionage, show Hint Gennnnv herself is not quite inactive in this direction.