GERMANY'S SPIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 24, 3 May 1916, Page 4

GERMANY'S SPIES.

I All Germany's spies are not vol vnti ' down, but every week adds to the list of suspects, and on occasions our detectives catch one red-handed I,writes the London correspondent ol the Sydney "Sun''). The hashing oil signals to aircraft remind us every time, the Zeppelins or aeroplanes come at night-time that there are German agents in our midst, and those who go to a naval port or any dockyard used for the shipment of troops know how the ceaseless work of these tinderworld hirelings of the Kaiser have forced the authorities to all manner, of expensive precautions. Great fences have been built, guards pace night and day along every approach, passes are difficult to get, even for prominent men visiting the place on public busi-j ness. Some ports, such as Dover, are' in complete possession of the War: Office or Admiralty, and no one can enter the town without signed and' counter-signed warrant, ltecently the detectives ran down one of the most; handsome and ingratiating of the many beautiful women Germany has employed. She had been in the country for five days. Every hour of, every day her movements were no j counted for; and on the fifth the see-, ret service men had proof, and her arrest was ordered. Happily, she had; been able to do no harm; hut she had got far, and a step further would have, meant a valuable secret transferred to! Berlin. Germany does the spy work" handsomely, but clumsily. The Kai-j ser's agents employ lovely women," who have many accomplishments and; can carry off delicate situations well.! Every German spy, every German' agent, even those working above} ground, in America,'are clever and atrj tractive, easy to get oh with, and hard; to offend. The. spie.s are shipped 1 across from Scandinavia or the tlni-j ted States, and it is comparatively! easy for them to enter the cbuu'vy! They communicate w'itli Berlin through a neutral country; but, as all, k rtors! to neutral countries are opened. ancl[ scanned—a colossal work carried tart; at our British post offices—they re-1 quire clever codes. The' British an-' thoritic.s do not pretend that they prevent all spying. But they do claim when they speak of a subject thai is, best served by silence that there is; no spy system to compare with our, own. From personal observations I can say that there is much to support; this claim. Our spy system is silent,', there is no boasting or talking, no! ostentation, no overdoing it by elab-j oration. One of the most notorious! of German-America.spies is a man we' used, and cast aside. .Most spies are internationals,, men and women of; tioi country, adventurers, whom either, side. can buy., . , j