WOMAN SPY STORY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 14 January 1916, Page 3

WOMAN SPY STORY

ADVBNTUE.ES OF A FRENCH SERGEANT'S WIFE. Remarkable revelations regarding tile German spy system were made recently at Geneva when a woman named Philipozono, a native of Cahors (Garonne), whose husband is a sergeant in a French infantry regiment at the front, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and fined £40 by a Swiss, military court. . When the Germans invaded France she was made prisoner and charged with facilitating the escape of two French soldiers.' Condemned to be shot, slio was given a chance to save her life if she would turn spy. In case of nonacceptance she was informed that her family would suffer. She consented to betray her country and was dispatched to Antwerp, where there is a school for educating spies. The methods of tuition are very strict and thorough. Philipozono was put through a course of military instruction. taught a secret code and shown how to use invisible inks' for the transmission of secret reports. When her education '.vas complete she was sent on 'missions to England and France with a passport and other documents forced by the German Heodonarters Staff. Her reoorts in invisible ink were sent to Geneva, whence they were, forwarded to a German officer named Riken, at Bale, where he pretended to be encaged in business as a commission agent. The Swiss police seized numerous letters written by Philipozono, .and she was arrested- on returning to Geneva from France for instructions. —"Daily Mail."