WOMEN AS SPIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 March 1919, Page 4

WOMEN AS SPIES.

ACTIVITIES IN ENGLAND,

Women spies in England gave the authorities considerable trouble for a time, owing to the fact that they weita frequently moving in the best society.

Early in 1915 a woman, who has been described as both beautiful and fascinating, suddenly appeared in Loudon circles. She had a furnished flat in Mayfair, where she entertained on a lavish scale. Fr.;quenteis of her social gatherings included well-known society women and both military and naval officers. She uas a spy working with a German, •iTKi it was through the pair of them having been sdn lunching at la quiet restaurant that both wore caught. Another woman moving in West End circles was caught by two different means. One day ta, Belgian, who had just landed in England. told the authorities that when he was in Paris he'had been asked by a fashionable .Woman if he would bring a. letter over to England and deliver it to a certain address in the West of London.

The man refused mid gave tnc address to the authorities, who set a watch upon thb woman. She still moved about in the best restaurants, where she generally dined and got into conversation with officers. ~ One day, however, she received a letter brought by hand by someone from Paris. Its contents must have .disturbed her, for she “rang up” a man living in Essex on the coast, and her conversation being overheard, she was reported to the authorities, with the result that slm was arresed.

The man. who was a spy, lived in a spot: where lie was able to signal submls tunes aif sea. He eventually shared a spy’s fate. It is interesting to learn that the woman spy in Paris was alert caught and sentenced to imprisonment.