OUR SPIES IN TURKEY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 151, 21 March 1919, Page 5

OUR SPIES IN TURKEY

ENVER PASHA'S NARROW

ESCAPE

(fiv "P.," in the "Daily Mail ") There' are some quiet men in inconspicuous B.N.V.K. uniforms to be met in the Eastern Mediterranean. just now who have odd tales to tell. They me memb«rs of- the "S.S.,"or British heciet teervice. which ran our spy Turkey. There was hardly a night dur ing tile war. that British Intelligence agents were not put ashore on the coast S? Minor to make their-way inland and bring back information about lurkish dispositions. The Coastline of linker is 'particularly well disposed for this work. It is sparsely populated, full of lonoi' creeks and inlets, and the greater part of the inhabitants of the littoral are Greeks of Ottoman rationality. Mo eover within a few miles of the coast lie a series o£ Greek islauds-linbros, Tenedos MHyfcne, and Cluos-which, provided useful bases for our spy organisation hi each of these islands lived one of our Intelligence officers, usually in the T NVMv.. or on the General List. It ws his duty to enrol suitable agents. Ho found them .chiefly among the Gieek islanders, cunning and. bold men v.ho were full oMiatred .fqr'Vtlie .Turk, and eagerly rp.wiy f 0 w ork Against lnm.' >»ight aftci iWit the British Intelligence officer would set out in his motor-boat to put » mrty of his spies ashore in. some deseit--1,1 g'not ou the Turkish coast. It was t e i wneys to bring off the spies which ortvidod the chief thrills of the work. Sometimes the Intelligence offieor weutd find waiting for him, instead ot Ins own ™„ a patrol of Turkish in entry, which wo id greet his signal with a volley. That was when Die landing of (lie sinus hr'l become known and the lurks "Ml been put on the alert along the whole C " l '' St A Trap for Enver, Perhaps the most romantic . scheme intc led by the fertile brains! .ot oar •'S S ' was that of kidnapping ■ Lnver Pasha. when he was on his way to take a course if hot baths at Cheshme, on the A g« ~ i »«,T«S Commander-in-Chief was bvnG^ n ifth'office?laf'Ked mon under iiiitisii o" 1 "" , Vo land in Turkey, make lib uaj \ n point on the lonely roa<] Kuvei's motor-cur must pahs, aiut t rib 1»1'1 TtoJbX f»i • J.,.- nf Hie "O-mile march to Hie . coa;t,' which they would have to perform lorn lv stretch of the road where it passed ihrougli a narrmv valley whose sales were strewn with bouldeis. The kidnappers followed the model of a police trap for motorists ill their di.®S, IS . One party was to bo posted down the road at the entrance to the vallov and the rest farther up. It was known that the Turkish Commander-in-Chief would have at least two cars, and that he would probably himself bo in tho S TUn C as the cars wer'e botl, in the gorge accordingly the party faitl e-. from the entrance were sm.denlj to 10l own rocks Iron, their hiding ph ce m front, of Iho leading car. Ihe dine would naturally.pull up, and the wi w.mid tier, receive a drum ot bullets from the Lewis gun. tin. party lower down the gorge would rush out 'and drag Knver from the second lai, a voiding the use of their arms it possible, though Enver was known ahajs to be ready to shoot, ami is a man ot ni'K.t tlesi-ic-i'iitf' courage. , But after all these carclul' plans had Veil laid and the abduction party, well exercised and drilled in their execution, the Turkish War Lord at the last mo. mcnt changed his plans and up his proposed curo'at tho Cheshme hot. baths. Enver l'aslia will, probably never know, unloss ho reads these fries, how near 10 was ia the spring of 1018 to finishing the jvar in a British internment camp.