WAR NOTES
TIUC SPY IN UNIFORM. "One of the more difficult aspects of the well-organised system of espionage which the (iennaus conduct this side of our trendies is the spy in uniform. l'rom time to time descriptions are circulated of oliicers who have obtained information and then disappeared. It is as common ior spies dressed in the uniforms of British oliicers to appear in (he trench lines as it is for 'French offi* eers' or 'Belgian soldiers' to appear in our own. Their discovery of our gun positions and other secrets which wa imagined secure is demonstrated by sudden bursts of well-placed and accurate-. ly-timed shells. Some of these spies are not beyond using violence. A friend of one of the officers was entrusted with. an important despatch. As lie was near-in};-his (lestillation he noticed two officers talking some distance away. Suddenly one officer sprung upon the other and wrested from him some papers, and took to liis heels. The other screamed' out, 'Shoot him!' This fellow, although he had never handled a revolver before in his life, took aim and fired. He mannged to kill the culprit outfight. It transpired that he was a man we had been looking for for some. nil officer's letter.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 297, 25 May 1915, Page 5
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206WAR NOTES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 297, 25 May 1915, Page 5
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