GERMAN SECRET SERVICE REAPPEARING

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 253, 21 July 1919, Page 9

GERMAN SECRET SERVICE REAPPEARING

.'. ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA. (London ''Times" Correspondent,) ...... Paris, May 2;).' . The Geneva, correspondent of "'La Temps" lists had very interesting.conversations with qualified .persons on the subject of German propaganda in. Switzerland, ■ ~.'.' Yon know (hs well organised, the espionage of the Central Empires was, Numerous sensational arrests and trials have shown t'ho direct relation of secret organisations with iMnjor von Bismarck, tho German milir tary attache at Borne. If tho campaign so energetically earned on by. a few Swiss politicians, such a,s. \I. I'rodcne <Ie Rabours, Deputy for Geneva to. tho National Council, lias largely contributed to the cleansing of the country, the cessation of 'hostilities has -also caused a number- of-undesirables to .quit Swiss-ter-ritory. Now .the secret services of- Genriany nre resuming business under a new form. -To-day the ex-agents of German espionage are almost openly at work on various -kinds of propaganda against the Entente countries. A very import-ant anti-British service has, for instance, just beefl discovered, Pamphlets upon which no author's .or printer's nn.mo. appears aro oirculated under cover, and are oven sent, to. the offices of-important Swiss journals. -One of these -pamphlets, entitlou "Notes on Ireland," seeks to prove t'hnt England does not apply the principle of the autonomy of .peoples. The Swiss police recently seized at Vevey a quantity-of those tracts, the - Germanic .origin of'which is evident. . Another significant fact is the .return of some of the known chiefs of the secrotI.services.. These.men, so wary that Swiss nolico can hardly catch.them red-hand-ed, have resumed, their old habits, A few weeks ago a French daily noted the. i presence of Lieutenant Theodore Schlos* I in Geneva. Schloss at once disappeared I for some weeks. 1 am assured that Lieu--1 tenant Scliloss, who during the. war wa9 J the chief, of the agents whose business it was to enrol people to send them to ! France, has. again been seen here in com- ; puny of a Belgian who Is also in tho pay of' Germany.' At; t'he present moment Schloss is directing an anarchist jiropaI ganda service m Italy, the headquarters i of which is at Lugano.