SPY'S DARING PEAT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2682, 31 January 1916, Page 5

SPY'S DARING PEAT

" DOW HE GOT TO THE BANQUET AT NISH UNDER THE NOSES OF BUN SECRET SERVICE Bjr Telegraph—Press Association—o3iyrlgln (Roc. January 29, (5.35 p.m.) i London, January 28. The spy. who diued at the Kaiser's banquet at Nish relates that ho was closely watched at Constantinople, and as the German Secret Service officers wore searching papers at his hotel, he determined to leave as quickly as pos- . eiblo. The Press published' the news that. tho Kaiser was coming to Belgrade, and he managed to seoure an invitation to the banquet at Nish. He baw Halil Eey, and explaiued that ho desired the great honour of seeing the "all-highest. Halil Boy was in such high spirits over tho evacuation of Gallipoli that he gave him a letter to tho Prefect of Polico at Stamboui. "Tho Prefect told mo that tho only way to journey to Belgrade was by the German military train. I mentioned my interview with Enver Pasha, and usked him to facilitate my movements. Tho Prefect replied: 'I will see if it is possible to leave.' My passport was ■recalled in the morning, and in much trepidation I went again, and ivaa given a passport permitting me to travel in tho military train. As tho train approached Nish a German noneom. looked out of tho window, and I saw tho decorations. Ho exclaimed: •'Our Kaiser is here!' I was markedly uncomfortable at the banquet, even more so than the Kaiser, with his awful cough. If the Secret Service officers who were surrounding the Kaiser lad recognised me as having been in the Near East before there would have been a short and simple cercmony in the Town Hall, I playing the principal part. "During tho journey in the military train 1 noticed wonderful German work in the repairing; of tho broken railway bridges in Serbia, enabling the speediest transit to Constantinople. Evidences of the retreat were visible in destroyed and blown-up tunnels. They had completely restored tho bridges. The remains of dead horses were carefully collected, the Germans skinning the carcasses for the leather. I heard it frequently said that the Germans intended to disguise the Bulgars in German uniforms in the event of an invasion of Greece. I saw immense quantities ,of uniforms, but I am not convinced that.tho Germans will attack Salonika. They heartily respect General Sarrail, whose wonderful work at Verdun kept them off. Tho Turks do not want an invasion from Salonika. 'fiiey have heavily entrenched themselves south of 'Adrianople, fearing an Allied attack north-west of Constantinople." ■