ESPIONAGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1416, 17 April 1912, Page 7

ESPIONAGE.

AN ARREST IN QLASQtfW.

Dy Telecraph-PrcEs AESociation-Copyrizli

London, April 15,

Detectives have arrested under (lie Official Secrets Act a man named Augtird Karl Greaves, who described himself as an Australian. Tho man was arrested at tho Central Station Hotel, Glasgow, and had in his possession a quantity of documents mid information likely to be useful ti (in enemy. ; EUROPE'S SPY FEVER. ■/ (< Poor Europe (says the.Sail; Francisco 'chronicle" of March 20) is gasping in "spionitis." Germany, Austria, anil Russia are nil preparing- legislation making it harder for foreign spies to work, and making it nloro painful lor them V -to get caught. England Has already passed such an Act. Sums estimated conservatively at cfcJOO.OOO a year are, being pnid out by the great Powers to got. facts—and fictions— about one another.s defences. It is generally supposed that the figures aro much higher, but that is a mistake. Tho business is interesting, villainous, and heroic enough; but it is not so romantic as the public thinks. It absorbs few incognito grand dukes mid blaek-eyod, impassioned princesses, and is rather tho domain of retired pickpockets, drunken clerks who can't get other jobs, unfrocked parsons and unwashed' ne'er-do-wolle. i'he tpy business lias its humour. The humour lies in' the fact that every nation holds itself stainless from tho foul treachery, and paints itself as an innocent victim of spying neighbour!:. In renlily, no nation is any better than any other. - A year ago , (eoirtimtbS" llltf correspondent) when Britishers were deep in. virtuous anger over tho imaginary invasion of German waiter-suies the Germans discovered two Hritish spv organisations, ono of them formed by full-blown British olliccrs, who were caught wliilo stealing into Morkum forts by night. when later virtuous Germans hnd a panic about villainous Nubian sides in I'iUst Prussia, the Hussians found behind a gun in Hrpst-Litovsk fortress a Germnn spy named Teyn. Next the Italians had their turn. Their, newspapers printed revelations about the qver-run'niug of Udine by disguised Austrian engineer officers, I'ar be it, they said, from-decent, chivalrous Italy blacking her lily hands with Mich base treuchcry. And just at that moment the Austrihns arrested in Polo, an arsemil employee who was providing Rome's naval staff with complete plans of (he habonr defences. Which proves that all Europe spies and lies, indiscriminately.