The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-12-07
! (aIBAuEN as SPIES.
.eeE HAD A HIGHLY
- SECRET SERVICE.

fNT sEcRE' e
!, Regard to the Late War
...izes the Need Of Re-
~. the syste" !" the a.
i Europe
uor between Russia and
',..,ehuria was inhabited oy
..,diers. There was, it IS
s.,t IN the open tield-the
II read Of in the newspaper
nth the alphabetical Jum-
,ames Of places; and there
~ contest going on, as 1t
..-.round. We shall not
the Japs did in their con
d. elaborate spy system stem save
n,sIans tell of it in their pres s.
..,iou. among themselves, OF
IN secret service. The dis
.,te the form OF an exhibit
=, failure in an important
Z the military art as It has
"a with the mysterious, hidden
I, Of communication.
nav absorb this Russian story
], and failure, as it is trans
nm the reports which have
s.eome accessible; it IS import
this country just now because
side-light on Japanese
n. 1t is we'll to know OF them
Lance Of whatever may happen
i q earnings things when it's
&, as the Russians did.
NJ first place, the Russians had
their main reliance upon the
{, residents of the district WITH
|, ,uue occupied by the military
and they speedily discovered
lie Japs had corraled most OF
ufly persons by various devices.
sipaman hates the Jap with an
!, cordiality, but the Jap over
! the prejudice by dexterous in
Il, The Chinaman is a suscep-
creature under some blandly
bercisl stimulation; but he Is
cruel and vindictive with a
e mixture OF generosity and
hept. He was a tough customer
/ Manchurian problem OF the
led Russian, who never once
! TO the occasion of the alert de-
n habitually practiced by the
Ions Jap. One incident, remark
br its originality, shows to what
pity the japanese went in be-
BIZ the Russians.
] described in this report. filed
Russian officer upon the Russian
that one of the Chinese spies
ut In a CATER which he said had
picked up at kan-ping-san. and
rs identified by the interpreter
/ Chinaman, as having a mark
showed that it was once the
Ey Of certain private Of the
company of the Twenty-sixth Ia
infantry regiment. About the
time, another spy arrived at an.
headquarters with another gait.
ltch he said he had picked up at
Ptyuan. The marking was the
Is that Of the gaiter picked up
lnMng-san, and according to the
i should have belonged to the
japanese soldier, who must, in
have made a gigantic step tc
lost the two CATERS at such
4 separated places. An investi
vas instituted and the Russians
mat the Japanese had estab
III Ta-fa a central agency where
nation was doled out to Chinese
iW the edification of the Rus
Not only that, but articles were
a6ured to the end that these
Cninese hirelings Of the Rus
night have documents" t.
nat they had been here ant
Fad picked up relics belonging
enemy. In fact, the japanese
sed a keen shrewdness in this
aeail of operating to counter
against the Cinnamon who
@pioyed by the Russians. Thu
therefore, were able to use
aasslan spies for Japanese pur
md in the end to outwit the
at every turn. This was Sc
ue case that the Russian Off
~ describes the situation say:
zone occasions the Russian
aisappeared by the hundred
uelf permits with them!"
nere were such difficulties al
! spies who could read or wht
ven tell what they had seen
!. Mem knew nothing of badge!
ma OF rank, not to mention
utant military operations o.
Of which they had been tn
SPECTATORS. For all the goo