BOWLING

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 129, 4 January 1939, Page 2

BOWLING

FRANCIS CUP COMPETITION TWO OrO'ljJKl TEAMS COMPUTING The annual tournament of the Bay of Plenty Bowling Centre for tlio Francis Cup was opened on the. Tauranga South Bowling Green on .Monday. The tournament will occupy three days in which 18 teams from the various, clubs in the Bay. consjsJfA ing of 72 players, will take part. f The following teams arc entered fyr the contest. Glen Massey.—M. Walker, J. McLarenn, Matuska. Norwood v s -)-

’•young Belgian ‘aristocrat whoi worked for the British Intelligence Department during the war at the Gennan'jirttsselk. headquartersy/was an adept at devising^' new means of' sending secret messages. • Pn die occasion when she. was asked for a plan of enemy gun posi-. Lions,. she had the finished map reduced photographies 1 lyi to the size of .the top of a large pin and hidden inside the rim of ,a pair' of spectacles. An. agent,/-'wearing the spectacles took the ■ “ map to British headquarters through neutral territory.

Louise showed remarkable intelligence find courage when in a tight corner. One rainy day she ;. ;; was dragged into a'i. police station and handed over to .women attendants to be and searched! . . ’ ; ; There Was nothing remarkable p* bout this, as suclr searches were going on all the time; but on this occasion Louise Wats tariyiiig incriminating papers. Fortunately she liap time to- slip them iiitp her wet umbrella. standing against the wall. When the search was oyer .and she was Tree to go she deliberately iel't the umbrella behind, ami then- came. I lack for it to disarm suspicion- . Her ruse worked, and indeed' she escaped discovery for the duration of the. wai; j ,.l>ut|ishe was so deeply tiutns finally put her in prison' where she died 1 of typhus. “ 1 With one or two notable exceptions such as Louise, Great' Britain the use of Women toy espionage dur-

ing the war; but there.r.is some indication that the British Intelligence Department lias now come to appreciate that a pretty girl may very well step where a squad of Scotland Yard experts in disguise could never tread.

Story of Miss X. The story of Miss X., who was employed by the British Intelligence Department. to unmask the Soviet Woolwich Arsenal spies,s at the beginning of this: year, is stranger than fiction. Nobody knows who vMiss X. is ; Imt some people have seen her, because she appeared at Police Cburt last- March, as witness against the spies. She is described as fair, very pretty, with a beautiful figure: in court she wore a clinging black gown and expensive furs.

I,f Jsigl.it years ago she was a typist at Whitehall. Now she lias embarked upon a successful career as a secret agent and it is not lilchly that she will be allowed, to give it- up, even if she wants to.

Miss X. was approached by the British, intelligence Department to help unmask a ring of Soviet spies who, it was known, were operating through the Friends of the Soviet Union, in London.

It is probable that the girl was workiiig''in a Whitehall Department allied to the. War Office; her record was well known. Among other accomplishments, she was an expert duellist; and a student of ju-jitsu. Her patriotism was well known; so she was approached l , gradually, through

a carefully planned scale of acquaintances and friends. .Needless say, she was thrilled at the opportunity to become a Secret. Service agent ■ how many girls would iioft.be? .

perseverance Rewarded.. Her first step a Communist. It took her three years of relentless effort, during ‘which she performed tfhhmjjeer Syorki foim .jjje Friends of tile TJmoiftl to vm their confidence, sufficiently i r her to meet P. oijci^ijenJidoyce of Woolwich Arsenal; now doing six years in gaol. , t, - * • After Miss A. had met Glading the rest was easy, even though it did take another four .years. was a rcinanc.e; Glading found her a flat 'in London, and, quite convinced) that Miss X. was a friend of the Friends, turned it into a factory for copying official documents. . . After she met Glading, Miss X. became deeply involved with- the Soviet spy network in London. The British Intelligence Department supervised her activities for another four years in order t Q , catch all the ringleaders. In January, 1&"38, after seven years’ work, Miss X. gave: the department information which led to the capture, red-handed, of four employees at Woolwich Arsenal who wore suspected of espionage. Three were given gaol sentences; one was released because there was not enough evidence ugainst .him. Mr.' Justice Hawke, the Judge who tried the case, said of Miss .X.: “1 think she has done a great service to her country.” That was a case where a woman used her charms, and her intelligence, to outwit four men and an intei notional organisation, it was a highly efficient pidee of work, and must-have done much to convince the British Intelligence Departinent of the usefulness of women agents. , Miss X., at least, had the satisfaction of knowing that the agents she worked against did not receive the death sentence. Under such circumstances espionage becomes merely a sporting game of wits, with perhaps a lew years in gaol for the loser. Miss X. was apparently the personification ol : the beautiful girl spy of fiction. To be a successful secret agent a woman has to he young and attractive; though Mata Hari, perhaps the most successful of all. women spies, was 4(J when, in her liey-dey in Baris she sent dO.OOC soldiers to their doom..

Wartime Work. Mata Hari. however, liad always possessed outstanding beauty. She was a Dutch girl named Marguerite Gertrude ZeTTe before the war. Tlie laet that slu; was a wonderful dancer probably lor her youthful appearance in middle age. .-'he even danced 1 in her cell the night before she was shot. Her last request was to be allowed to take a bath in milk. It was not permitted. Another beautiful wartime spy was the sinister--- “Blonde Demon,” tlie Mistress of the (german spies of the Interior .one. Antwerp. She was known variously as Mile. • Debtor. jieHtricliscn, “'Phe Red 1 igo'iP 1 ': but her real -ifamo was Marie Anne Lesser. * Slu' ..was the daughter of a Berlin art dealer. Before the war slu had ■ visited a town on the Hussion 1 rentier and fallen in love with a German officer. She was so entranced by the way in; which she was able.' to mate him talk that lie persuaded her to exercise her charm'on a Russian o.imor. also visiting the town, just for inn. Marie did hot.Jtnow her German Irienu was a secret service agent. No sound had she obtained-, information irom the Russian than she knuid slu was caught in a trap and bad to go on being a spy.

Later she became a director of the women’s, section ot the Gorman College or Spies at Lorrach, in Luvaria, ■where she had the honour of butting tlu- already - much-experienced -Mata Hari through a special code comse. Mata Haii iuul been a German spy since 1908.

Muriel-used to tell the girhj at> the Co!lege ior Spies that, whiie espionage 'was a game in which th.es would fk l no thanks if -suwessiul, and n,u meicy -if they failed, it had its compensations. \G body knows. tvliat . happciied Jm ..b.d'. pilfer the . \v‘nii; w but it. is CQi'tjtin she was not captured. Like most women spies, she coal:! look after luirolf. In the streets o\ Ar.tweip she went attended by two massive German pi ize-Mgbtors. A Moment. Women spies have to be athletic and capable of locking after themselves in emergencies; such an instance occurred in Austria, during the

Tauranga.—W„ Hartley, J. Stable, C. T. McFarlane, .E.Tamblyn (s.).'. Tauranga B.—S.'; A. Woods, Stonehouse', Rosevearo, F. Washer (s.). Te Buko A. —La,ngdon, Gemming, Chester, Sweetman (s.). Te Puke B.—Fr deman, Grams, Montgomery, Palmer (so). ~dJA 4 i>uke C.-^-Willis, Smnmerliayes, Allely, Patterson (s.). Waihi.—Blackwood, Casting, Lorrnher, Burt (s.). Tauranga South.—A. McDonald, Simcock,, Whitworth (s.). \ South Bl.—Fisk, Newsham, Watson, (s.). ~ Tauralj'ga: ’ Soifeh C.—C'uinmingham, Every, Rfpitqji, Bartlett (s.). iai’ifaiiga''' s‘"Soptjh D.—Fleming, Smith, Milner, Ward (s.). Rotorua. Mb Do we 11, Newmarch, JJ'titt, Bertram (s.), Whakatane A.—Black, Orchard, .Hurrah, Loane (s.). V B.—J. Bell, H. Bell, Mflsaac,- Graham (s.). Opotiki Citizens.— Whitfield, Craig, 'labif, Jephson, (s.). Te \Kuiti.— iEvans, Clarke, Horne, Hinsdale-(s;)^’ Taneatua J—Merrie, Hunt, Wilson, Peebles (s J

Opotiki.—Clarke, Mansell, Burrett, Kidd (s.). SECTIfc\L. (First Round;) • The play was; as follows: i Tauranga (Tamblyn) 23 v. (i|ai Massey -.(X or wood) 18.;* Te PifKe . (Sweetman) 29 \y T'e Puke (Patterson) 17; Whakatane* Waihi , (Burt) 18; Tauranga South (Bartlett) 21 v. Tauranga >. South (Whitworth) 9; Rotorua (Dr. Bertram) a bye. Second Round.' , ~ Whakatane (Loane) Id v. Tauranga South (Whitworth) 14; Waihi (Burt) 20 v. l]e Puke (Paterson) 17; Rotorua (Bertram) 23 v. Tauranga South (Bartlett) Id; Te Puke (Sweetman; 22 v. Glen Massey (Norwood) 20; Tauranga (Tdmblyn) a bye. S Third Bound.

Tauranga (Tamblyn) 17 v. Rotorua (Bertram) 8; Te Puke (Sweetman) 24 v. Whakatane (Loane) 16; Waihi (Burt) 23 v. Glen Massey (Norwood) 14; Te Puke (Paterson) 30 v. Tpuranga South (Whitworth) Id; Tauranga South (Bartlett), a live. SECTION 11. First Round. * O'potiki Citizens (Jephson) 18 v. Tauranga South (Watson) 8; Tauranga (Washer) 23 v. Taneatua (Peebles) 14; 'J'auranga South( Ward ) 20 v. Te Puke (Palmer) 13. Opotiki (Kidd) Id v. Te Kuiti (Dinsdale) 14; Whakatane (Graham), a. bye. Second Round. Te Kuiti (Dinsdale) 26 v. Opotiki Citizens (Jephson) 10; Tauianga (Washer) 22 v. Tauranga South (Ward) 18; Te Puke (Palmer) 27 v. Whakatane (Graham) 23; Taneatua (Peebles) 2d v. Opotiki (Kidd) Id; Tauranga South (Watson) a bye. THIRD ROUND Opotiki Citizens (Jephson) 19 v. Taneatua (Peebles) 18; AA hakatane '(Graham) 21. v. Tauianga* Soutli (Watstm) T 6; 'Tauranga South (Ward) 24 V.'.\ Oftotiki (Kidd) 20; Tauranga (Washer) 18 v. . -Te Kuiti 14; i T’e Puke (Palmer) a bye.