CLEVER GERMANSPY

Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1933, Page 2

CLEVER GERMANSPY

REMARKABLE biSCL’OSIfINESFYu WORK WITH BRITISH CENSOflfl.^ jjV: — t'ki Remarkable disclosures are made b f; a German, MF J. ,C. Silber, in bis fyaok ; “The, Tnvisible.l. Weapons, that Silber insinuated himself, *ppar»“ ently.;, without much diflßlciulty,.;..i^to^ti^ : British Postal .Censor’s, Oficfigfirst at Sailsb ury Hous§, • London, - ' And j afterwards in Liverpool. He remained in the service during the whole of the war without .discovery. ' * ' ■ d AVhen liable for conscription/ having been ; a medical student, Bilber treated * himself in such a manner to render himself apparently unfijfc f -fbr military service. He had aflat in‘the Haymarket, wFero he used to photograph letters which he had no time, to copy. He gives an extraordinary account of the devices he adopted to send " information to the enemy. V . According to Mr Silber’s, discharge paper, signed on .behalf of the War Office, he was “a very able man; a good linguist; thorough and competent.” He also gives a memorandum, issued by one of the Deputy Chief Censors, warning recruiting officers hot to interfere with Mr Silber, as his services were of special value to the censorship ! There is one consolation, Mr Silber says that the British organisation was much better than that of the Germans, - and that whereas it got better a*.-the war went on, that of the Germans grew! worse.