THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1574, 8 July 1916, Page 4

THE GERMAN SPY SYSTEM.

"Wherever we meet ;i (levin an/ says the Empire Review, “we meet, a soldier of; the Empire, bound rigidly by his allegiance to the central authority. Naturalisation in the case of a German is not only a. farce, but a danger to the State which accepts him. Indeed, it. is now part of the legal status ol; a Gorman that naturalisation in a. foreign country does not imply the loss of citizenship of the German Empire nor in any way loosen the bonds of discipline which render him the obedient slave of German despotism and the willing instrument of German guile. Of this the. United Nates furnish us, in German diplomatic intrigue and German incendiarism, with a convincing proof. Apart Irom the merely military position, Germany has for half a century aimed at the quiet, permeation of the domestic. policy and commerce of most of the countries of the world. 'This insidious inliltration has been accomplished by encouraging the migration to foreign countries of Germans who were emissaries of the State theories and propaganda. These immigrants are neither more nor less than spies, both from the commercial and the political standpoint. The clerk who accepted a nominal salary to work in a, London merchant’s office distinguished himself there by his assiduity and his determination to acquire every detail of the business carried on by his employers. These details he, with patriotic zeal, transmitted regularly to his real masters in Germany. A most noteworthy member of this band was the great lialhenna, who served Cor a long time as an unpaid assistant in a British engineering office. in a slightly higher social sphere the university man, the financier, the expert in technics, performed the same useful functions and betrayed every confidence in order that Germany might, profit from the brains of olhers. Not only so, but these vary men laid themselves out to be on terms of friendly intimacy with officials, army men, navy men, and all others from whom State secrets might be gathered, in India and other Eastern possessions Germans were members of the best clubs, welcomed at the official residences of governors and commissioners, officers and privates in the volunteer corps, and using the uniform thus obtained to facilitate their spying on defences, railways, harbours, and arsenals,”