Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-11
THE SULTAN'S SPIES
Turkeys Secret Service All
Over the World.
IN THIS COUNTRY, TOO
A TREACHERoUS SERvIAN SLAIN
IN MOMENT OF HIS TRIUMPH.
A Macedonian Leader Interviewed in
London by a Pretended Paris
Newspaper Man.
IN THIS COUNTRY, TOO

Written for The Evening Stnr by Ralph g. Gary.
Like Russia's. Turkeys secret service is
one of the most complete and far-reaching
In the world There are spies OF the sultan
III the German army, in the streets OF st.
Petersburg. in the cafes of Paris, as ser
wants in the families OF English nobility.
and even in New York they secretly watch
the enemies Of the Turkish government.
But it is especially in the Slavic prin-
cipalities on it's northern borders and in
Greece that Turkey has its secret agents.
So thorough is the system there that even
the privately expressed opinions of govern
ment officials reach the ears of the head of
the Turkish police system. These spies
are especially watchful of the Macedonian
insurgent bands. and they have often sue
ceeded in joining these bands only to be-
tray them al critical moment.
Caught at Last.
THE fact that a suspected man takes
part in fight and kills his Turk Is not
positive proof that he is no spy" says Ivan
Radouloff. Macedonian, now in New
York and a veteran of several insurgent
campaigns. 1.-The Instructions of a secret
service agent permit him TO take Turkish
lives. If by so doing he can gain the further
confidence of the enemy. case of that
sort was illustrated some months ago be-
fore l left Macedonia.
In a certain town where the secret in
surgent committee was unusually active, a
succession of unaccountable disasters al
most paralyZed the insurrection in tina:
district. First. two of our leaders were
captured. and one band was surrounded as
Il was leaving town one morning and al
most annihilated. Then caches OF arms
and ammunition were discovered and cap
~
berS of the local committee were thrown
into prison and tortured into confessions
two bashi-baZouks single-handed and killed
Suspicion finally centered on a young
Servian. He had been out with the bands
several times fighter. He once attacked
two bashi-bazouks single-handed and killed
both. This deed had made his comrades re-
luctant to suspect him of treachery. But
it finally became impossible to deny that
he was always near when discoveries were
made and suspects arrested.
"One night the local committee met and
sent him with a message While he was
gone they discussed plans to entrap him,
ard when he returned they were ready.
The president then informed the commit
tee that in a certain cave several miles out
Of town one hundred rifles, with 2. CORE
spending amount of ammunition were hid
den. The Servian was the only one who
did not know that this statement was
false.
Next night ten insurgents concealed
themselves in the cave and waited. Before
midnight they heard the tramp of feet
They saw squad of Turkish soldiers in
the moonlight, and at the head of them
was the Servian. The Turks waited whiit
he stepped inside the cave. As he did so
an insurgent slipped in behind rock al
the entrance, and as the Servian passed
him he drove a Turkish yataghan almost
through him. The other Macedonians Their
fired upon the detail of soldiers and drove
them back to the village.
Women Spies.
The Turkish spy system includes great
number of women. The basis upon which the
Turkish police work is that a beautiful Wo-
man may learn the secrets of Allah himself
AS matter of fact. their most useful in
formation comes from women.
A wealthy Albanian who was leader OF
several rebellions against the Turks was
one time during a period of peace, pre-
scented with beautiful wife as an additlon
to his harem by the pasha of the province;
The Albanian was immensely pleased, ana
made the woman his favorite wife, when
DC sition she held for over a year.
Meanwhile, it became known among the
Albanian revolutionary leaders that some
of their most important secrets were mys-
teriously reaching the ears of the military
authorities They appointed several OF
their number to track down the source Oh
the leakage of information.
One evening one of the Albanian spies OBJ
served a small Nubian boy leaving the
Headquarters of the khaimakam He rec
ognized the boy as the attendant of the wo-
man who had been given as a present to The
insurrectinary leader. The spy reported
his discovery and the Nubian boy was
watched The spies caught him one even
ing going down to the town and searched
him. but without result
Then. according to the Albanian merchant
in New York who tells this story, they pro-
ceeded to torture the boy, and learned that
every time he was sent to the office of the
Mammalian his feZ was taken away from
him and returned after long interval. The
Albanians Immediately examined the boy S
fez and found letter in the lining. They
took this and let the boy go, threatening
him with terrible death If he revealed
their identities.
The Albanians, not recognizing the hand
writing of the letter, at once suspected
their leader himself, not thinking that the
boy was the exclusive attendant of the
leaders favorite wife When they reached
their headquarters in the mountains it was
only to learn that their leader had been ar
rested and in prison, while the favorite
wife had fed.
Such is one of the favorite methods Of