PERFECTION OF GERMAN SPY SYSTEM.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 June 1919, Page 5

PERFECTION OF GERMAN SPY SYSTEM.

i The full extent of the German spy system is only now coming to light. Thus, during the preparations for one of our big attacks, when a regiment was entraining at a. ce.rta':7n station, the Germans were shelling it heavily. The next day the same thing oer:ul'red. On the third day s'ee.l'et instructions were given for the troops to entrain about a mile from the station_; but no sooner had they commenced to get into the earri»ag'es when German shells began to fall. The divisional Staff were naturally greatly puzzled, and in an endeavour to get. to the bottoni of the niyste'ry the place of departure for flle-next batch of troops was made known to only one person. outside the st'afi‘—nanlely_, the stationn‘iasfel°, who had held his position for seventeen y‘eal's, and was lookerd upon as absolutely reliable. But the shelling occurred again, and then the sta.tionnlastel"s house \\‘a.s sub-jc-cted to :2 rigorous, 515:».--21. It was found he had a secret xvi" Zess erected, and had eommunie.e.ted 1:) the enemy in lhis, .way the Ino\'c-mezifs of the ll'C'o}'>.<. I