The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-10-05

Britain, neither is the Franco-German.
We exchange the first piece" with
Germany for the second, and the second
with France for little bit Of news
about Russia in Asia, which India be-
lieves to be important. And thus we get
home.
Each country has its own peculiar
sphere of interest to which it devotes
its greatest attention. Great Britain
has so many that properly speaking it
has none. But India is always alarmed
as to Russia and agents-British and
native-of the India department are
ever busy seeking particulars likely to
be of service when we have to defend
an empire which already, in the mill
tary sense, extends from Alden to Hong
Kong. Most of the Indian agents in
Rnussia are officers of the Indian army,
but needless to state. they do not traeVl
as such. Some affect to be tourists of
an innocent but inquiring turn of mind,
some go as commercial travellers, some
lean to religious propaganda, while
others collect curiosities.
These agents have been so energetic
and so prolific in their disguise that in
the south of Russia the bona-fide COM
merical traveller excitessuspicion. The
Russians now insist upon all com
mercials" being licensed and taxed;
moreover, the intelligence department
has found the orders for goods obtained
by it's travellers somewhat embarrass-
ing.
AS buying agent the spy hos also
worked well. No Briton con now go
across the Caspian to purchase skins
any more than to sell hardware, or even
just to amuse himself, witoout his let
tiers being opened and the company he
keeps carefully noted.
Elsewhere than in Central Asia the
inquisitive foreigner is likely to be de-
tanned as a suspect if found near
dockyard, arsenal, fortress, masked bat
terry or military undertaking of any
kind. The real tourist may excite sus-
picion, and no doubt many of the people
arrested are innocent, but occasionally
a spy is capturedand, usually, of course,
is liberated after Inquiries.
Foreign consuls are apt to be much
mort energetic, emphatic and positive
when a government agent is taken than
they are when the innocence of the par
ties held is SO apparent that 1t needs no
proof. In ordinary circumstances,
when the spy is known he hereby be-
comes innocuous, and he knows it. If
discovered the impolite Russian way is
to forbid him to enter the country, or to
declare he comes from plague-infest-
ed port, or that he is a Roman Catholic
or Jew.
The polite way Is to offer him guard
or helpmate or companion. The spy is
then shown what he must see, and as
soon as he has seen and reported the
various military dispositions are
changed so that the information he OBJ
tanned is worse than useless, being ac-
tually misleading. H.. -.. 49,.
The polite British way is to take the
recognized spy around the golf links or
give him pegs of whislSey and tell him
soft stories as he sits on a stool enjoy
ing (?) interminable fegimental cricket,
then to send or take him home, a happy,
talkative man with nothing to tell
That is yhat happens when a Russian
vessel calls at Perrin "for water" or
Russian officers show themselves Curl,
Gus as to the forts at Alden. 4. ... \
Many are the lodges resorted to by
British agents in order to avoid being.
"spoofed'' by their Russian hosts.
Their common way is to hunt in couples,
each independent OF the other so that
IL one is taken the other may still sue
coed in getting through with the work.
This plan has other advantages,
The eastern agents make adept spies.
Russia's agents, when out of uniform,
betray their calling by being so well in,
formed. which is unusual In Russia, but
1t takes a clever, educated man to de-.
feat them, and there are few such
amongthe class of people the agents
frequent in the east, for they pretend to.
be merchants, veterinary surgeons,
peddlers and even Migrants. 4
In the far east in the mater Of espi-:
onage Japan has the game almost en-
tirely to itself. A Japanese can readily
become so good an imitation of the Chi
naman, Manchu or. Mongol that the
Russians cannot identify him. and the
Chinaman who does will certainly not
denounce hin.-London Express.