Evening star., 1901-09-21
FOREIGN SECRET POLICE.
Turkish Spies MaintaaneA By thu. Sul-
tan In France.

Turkish Spies MaantaineA by th'. Sui
tan In France.
From the New York Tribune.
Recent dispatches from Europe call at
tention to the fact that at least two for
efgn governments keep In France, espe-
cially at Paris, q regular service Of secret
political police. A cable dispatch from Co
penhagen says that the Russian detectives
of the Muscovite embassy have cautioned
the czar against visiting Paris, as he in
tends to do. In regard to this contingency
a former director of the famous French de-
tective bureau called the 'Surete Gener-
ale," NJ. Goron, was interviewed by a re-
porter from the Patrie. The latter said:
THE Surete bureau declares that no Rus
sian agent-that is, detective-will protect
the person of the czar during his Sojourn
in France. and that the French police alone
will be intrusted with that care. What do
you think of 1t, M. Goron? The ex-direc-
tor answered smilfngly, after moment OF
hesitation: Hum! When President Faure
went to Russia the Muscovite police per-
haps declared officially that only it's agents
Should be charged to insure the safety of
the president of the French republic. But If
officially the service was performed by
Russian agents l should be much aston
ished If the actual chiefs Of the Surete
affirmed to me that no agent of that
French detective bureau was at M. Faure' s
side, disguised a sondeur as q pere
penard. And M. GorOn, who has retired
from active service, related how he entered
some years ago into relations with Tat
skowsky, chief of the Russian secret po-
lice bureau, on the occasion of the murder
at the Hotel de Bade, Paris of Gen. Seliv-
erstof. ex-chief of the political police at
st. Petersburg. The author of that muir
der, Padlewski, was never caught M.
Tatskowsky asked M. Goron to help him
| in reorganizing the Russian police He fol-
lowed the French usage, cut down the
number of his agents, keeping only the
best of them, and established his bureau
in the palace of the Russian embassy
The Turkish ambassador in Paris has al
ways had his detective bureau under his
immediate direction and located at his own
residence. He has to watch not only the
capital and other cities in France, but also
Geneva, Lausanne and other places in
switzerland. cable dispatch stated a
teW days ago that the French government
had decided to expel a number of Turkish
agents, whose mission had been to spy on
the members Of the Young Turkey" party.
Inc ottoman embassy in Paris is much less
d poiltlcal or diplomatic center than bu-
reau of information. His excellency Munir
Bey Is less intrusted with the care of con-
Guiding treaties than of looking after the
hundredS or turkish exileS in Switzerland
ana france The important diplomatic
d1spatch boxes which are sent every week
from the Rue de Presbourg to Yildiz Kiosk
contain Infinitely less of political informa-
ana .,o9 % or oHlciai news than Of police reports
read with especial attention by the sultan.
VINO prefers that kind Of reading to any
other, and lavishes favors and rewards uDon
those who furnish him with the greatest
quantity OF it. In Paris the Turkish sny
service Is well organized. better than any,
Wnere else. As soon as young Turk
arrives the secret police Of the embassy
are on the move. The man is shadowed.
Kept under observation. and attempts are
MADE to enter into conversation with him
Lney Try TO brlbe him to return to Con-
stantinople. If he refuses he is the ohien+
or OF threats, which are PROMPTLY executed
nus property IN Turkey Is confiscated, and
sometimes he is sentenced to death for
contumaciousness. Sometimes also. but
more rarely, the Ottoman embassy sue
ceeds IN obtaining from the French govern
ment s an order of expulsion against the un-
fortunate Young Turk" This kind Of
Work explains why Abdul Hamid in his
dispute with France did not hasten to re.
can MS ambassador, Munir Bey from
faris' where the latter gave a splendid
Ieast on the sultan's anniversary. an act
Whlch compelled the French government
Its territory. iioii'