SPY’S DARING EXPLOIT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1375, 18 March 1915, Page 4

SPY’S DARING EXPLOIT.

OUTWITS GERMAN INVADERS. There h-..s come into our lines from the dan serous country to the west s b’g noon-faced man, whom noooT expected to see again, writes PercEal Gibbons in the D-il/ Chronicle. Th.ee ...Us ago he was furu'sheo v’th peasant clothes to icplace his uniform, and he lumwnrd c2 uto me night to

r .0 his w;. >si C". German trenches to bring hack intelligence of the enemy’s condition and any indications of it. ;'aed movements which he could pick up. It was work of appalling danger, for the Germans are not gentle with spies, and I have just received tully authenticated particulars of one whom they captured and tortured.

This one, however, was not captured. He Is a Siberian, and has for his chief equipment a countenance in which ail signs of human intellect are concealed by a mask of utter heavy imbecility. NEW GERMAN MOVE REVEAEED. In the guise of a labourer made homeless and workless by the war, he was able to drift along the roads behind the German positions, and finally was actually employed at a depot of stores. He has now returned, bringing news which, though not unexpected, is none the less valuable aud interesting.

He says that the 17th German Active Corps, now holding positions on the Rawka, with the centre near Gumine, is to be withdrawn as soon as its place can be taken bj 7 Eandwebr divisions, and that it will be sent to the borders of Hungary. In the meantime, the Germans are bringing up large numbers of miscellaneous cavalry, most worthless, all their troops and considerable reinforcements of artillery lor operations designed to cover this movement. As corroboration of his statement, be informed the staff of the place and time of two projected German attacks, which duly occurred. PRISONERS TORTURED. The case of torture to which I have referred was that of Private Piotre Parfenlieff Krifsoff, of the Siberian Tirailleurs, who was picked up near Bresiny by the captain commanding the Red Cross. He had been captured while scouting in uniform, and taken into h cntiage where two officers were sitting. He was h ‘ • by ' -Idlers while another soldie; stabbed him all over the bodv with a bayonet, making forty wounds, none over an inch in dep'h. He was then throw ■ o.; " Jt--- wing in the open, r ’n?> when fetted;