GERMAN SPIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1923, Page 4

GERMAN SPIES.

K> ' - 1 SIR HASH. THOMSON'S -QUEER PEOPLE.” I : SECRET SERVIC K. STORIES. "Queer People” records Sir Rasil 'Uhi ll list ll1 *. discieel reminiscence- ■ f the Criminal I in . -t quit ion Department , and the "Spc-M Riattich” at .Scotland ‘ a :d, of which he was m charge (lur- J (‘lie a tm ; . the Gorman xm. s i ; mud ; hen, -i,, d in l he fame's-- ; armchair an i e.i'Vnuimg the "i hud'.” | '! In- iir- I ioe , V lo he arrested I v a - I .Ol! . a ■•] ! ad > v.: •. a good ov- ! ■ m-.v e : h" pa. n ■ •■• -.i. \ . I !•■■ wrote j all Ills h-ttei in English and j Scrn:a, :: oni"n r\ i ■ k, withe : any! . disgtii ■■.... Illv '-•■nm'. !' .it : «:r I !„>,••••! tn m) thi'i.'lgli was -lie ! tan,, is . " of I' <• f is-ia.i iron ,s j pa--mg w 1 nigh IS, Imd. i' ■ -. ‘-o dam , hiiigiy. j ■ ■ ■ i . .. i,i hi- ■ *■ ■ itli it is re-j ’•■ I l a ' •-•, ! I , ' a .Is ■ i sj a.p pl'a j s! .die ll: tie -(ithas| a-I t i oil 1I ' j ..llh-m- n oil •.!. "No. Us I w.'l' she':- j ham :> w ;; h a nr • ■• m m.” Rive -k v.' o w is assn- in' I wit! i .Mi War, hai :ii i:i • ph-I, ; eg us go-sp, III,'," • Ur ml l‘ le-i. ‘ ‘ was a v»rv ! dill'-e u '■ yji.*. He w a- n pianist. and j ' "■ ”1t > : .-n. ,d hi ; • or,- j si«!i; ; 1- m*. ■ }• • u 1 ! linvo JoniM'd :» I rc-.pc.- ■ • i. )>:.!•• i ” cl' ih<* -leit’d ’ I spies.' , I tin- a ll ,!'i '.g ol his exeeiilia.i u j v.a- a.lmosl ill ■ state oi collapse. tie slliidl'll spasm. 11 w as halievi I :.i’t< rwards that he had aetuailv died of heart failure h,i'ore the bullets reached him. Of all lhe -pies that were convict■ ■ I and executed. Sir Rasil says that ,ha man for whom ha felt most sm-rv was Keniam!,, I’iisehman. "He wagaol lama ii liv birth; he had iw lived of money, lor he was married to the daU"ht or ol a ri-di soap mamifnef iirer in Dresden, wlm had kepi him liberally supplied with funds for his studies m a vial ion.” It speaks volumes for the stupidity lII' the directors ol the German Ksphm- j age School in Antwerp that they slioilbl have selected as a disguise for such a

cial traveller. . . . He knew nothing whatever about trade. KISSED HIS VIOLIN.

ne. too, was a musician. After his sentence lie was not separated from his violin. He asked tot attain on his remove! t i the lower mi the night before ins execution and pie - ed till a late hour. When they came for him in the morning he picked it up and kissed it, saying, “Hood-bye. 1 shall not want you any more." Ho refused to have his- eyes hand aged and facei.l the rifles with a eouragoois smile.

Sir Basil toils a story which indicates tlie curious ideas they have abroad about the way ,n which the Brili-h conduct a war:

A Bulgarian who was taking leave : 1 an English official when returning to Bulgaria said .“Remember. I have nothing to say about this plan ol assassinating Ferdinand. ’’ “What plan?" asked the astonished Englishman. ‘Your plan. You are clearly within your rights, but 1 think as lime goes on you will find out tliai Ferdinand will he more useful to you alive 1 hail dead. How the Russians themselves regarl

their Jewish masters Air Basil shows by a popular story maw current i'l Russia.

At a Soviet meeting the list ol cle wed delegates was read over. The secretary came to the name “Ivan J.vanote itch Petroff.”

“But what’s his real name?” asked a delegate. “Ivan l vanowiteh Pet roll', lie has i o other name."