ENEMY'S SECRET ARMY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2320, 30 November 1914, Page 5

ENEMY'S SECRET ARMY

CEASELESS WAR. ON GERMAN . ; SPY SYSTEM London, November 27. Speaking in the House of Lords, LoriJ Haldane, replying to statements made by Lord Crawford and Lord Keith that Germans were receiving signals and obtaining coal and petrol from the coasts of Great Britain, said that the ■ War Office, tbe Admiralty, and the Home Office wore co-operating with unremit-j ting vigilance to suppress a known paid--' spy system. . . \ GERMAN NURSES 'AS SPIES. .' ' London, November 27. IBJ Dutch correspondent states that German nurses before the war obtained'> positions at Eoonletape (in. Belgium), < and when the German troops arrived , they acted as guides and superintended! the looting. •' ■'.'"". ' STOLEN PASSPORTS. (Reo. November 29, 3.35' p.m.)' i London, November 28.; It is stated that two hundred American passports which had been sent to tho Berlin Foreign Office for registration disappeared 'Under similar stances'to tho stolen English passport' • which the spy Carl Lody (recently shot' in the Tower) had usad. ; • SAT. ON AN ARTERY DIARY OF. A CHAPLAIN 'AT THE FRONT. A Liverpool chaplain, writing from' the front on September 28, eiyes the following extracts from his diary 1 of a . day's work:—., . ' .V 2 p.m.—Holy Communion in tent for four cases, one very bad. A young-lance-corporal asked, for this service,', and as I went round administering a-' wounded German prisoner suddenly held out his hand and said: "Lutheran Sacrainent." A Roman Catholic also par-, took. ■ ... ' 3.15 to 4.30 p.m.—Buried three soldiers. The French people at the cemetery sobbed like children, and showeredflowers on the roughly-i'onstructedi coffins. 5 to 7.30 p.m. —Services in tents. I could not hold a parade, as wo were momentarily expecting ambulances to' take patients to a boat. Also plastered, up a man's back, and sat on an artery' , , till the doctor came. ; 7.30 to 11 p.m.—Helped to take pa-j tients to a boat. We badly want Kterou, tiire. Send me a set of shaving I have. used to many of mine oj patients, '- .'. ■ .