8.000 SECRET AGENTS. PARIS, March 7. Besides the White Radies of Hohenzo!lorn, the highly organised Allied intelligence department in the war area occupied by the Germans, who number, ed just over 1.000. there were 7,000 0...er secret agents employed by the British, French, and Belgian Governments. Of these 8,000 the Germans detected and shot 216. One of them was an auxiliary ot the Allied Observation Corps, as the White Ladies were officially called, a police magistrate at Liege named Lejeune Throughout the German occupation of Liege he worked hard for the Allies organising the pscape into Holland of young Belgians on their way to join the Army and tampering with the German Army telegraph system. He was arrested once on suspicion, but released on tlie ground that there was no evidence against him. release was only a German ruse, how ever, to encourage him to take greater risks, and in 1616 he was again arrested and shot.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1922, Page 2
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