ELABORATE SPY SYSTEM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 205, 1 September 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

ELABORATE SPY SYSTEM.

SOME OF THE METHODS BY WHICH SECRETS ARE SENT AROUND THE AVORLD. Despite all the precautions which tho best intelligence divisions of the world can devise, important and exceedingly private information reaches Germany from England and England from Germany. There is always the medium of personal de'ivcry, of agents who travel the seas in the guise of business men on faked or sound passports, but few such are left after two years of combing. Th«j cable and wireless to-day are the most reliable means of communcation, but regulations of always increasing stringency have mado this medium difficult. To avert suspicion it is often necessay nowadays tor secret service agents in belligerent territory to transmit their messages to the des ; red point through relays which girdle the globe ; through brother agents who are posted to the very outposts of civilisation ior that purpose Let no reader imagine that such systems do not exist. CASEMENT CLOSELY WATCHED Not long ago the Brit : sh Admiralty received a secret report from Germany telling exactly on what day Sir "Roger Casement might be expected to arrive off the coast of Ireland, that two other Irishmen would accompany him, and that a shipload of arms would complete what was primarily a submarine expedition. I and many others knew (writes A. F. Beach) that Casement would attempt to reach Ireland,but a. spy also knew, besides those who went and a few officials who arranged his going; and, what is more, he got his information to England. Speaking of Casement, he was probably the most spied upon man in the war. Living in Germany, he was watched by both Germans and British No German official doubted Casement's sincerity, but he was watched for safety's sake"; no British official doubted Casement's sincerity, and he was watched for the same reason. ALL WATCHED BY SPIES. Change hotels as often as he wont I —and did—Casement could not evade British spies. I have seen Casement hang up his coat in a Berlin hotel and return from lunch an hour later t: find that every pocket had been rifl-rl and every scrap of paper contained therein taken. German spies were laid to catch the British spies who dogged Casement, but so far as I know none was caught. More than a year ago 1 stood on .'so heights of Scarborough Castle, on th? least coast of England, two hours aftey the German bombardment. Less than two months ago the commander of on; of the two German cruisers that took part in the bombardment described t• > me in detail a field gun that stood concealed on the outermost point fo this c'iff. A year ago I was cptured aboard a Dutch steamer in the North Sea by n German submarine whic'i located us i': a dense fog soon after daybreak. That submarine commander knew when and Avhere we were going, to the smallest point of the compass, and, as I have since learned, knew to the last egg an 1 two Americans what and who we had aboard. Sp ; es are to admiralties what navigators are to the ships. More than a year ago, while Lord Fisher was still in active* command of the British High Sea Fleet, it was sa'd by responsible officials that one of Fisher's greatest difficulties was the work of German spies. At that time? it was practically impossib'e for Fisher to issue an important order to his fleel without Berlin knowing the content; of he order 'is soon as did the ship.* of his own fleet.