Arizona silver belt., 1907-09-01
EVERY NATION
 SPY INFESTED
Espionage Purchases the Secrets of Majority of Secret Workers --Somo Notable Cases.

only civilized nation which has no laws
 enabling its authorities to deal with
 spies. In France the unfortunate tour.
 ist who is caught carrying camera in
 the neighborhood of a fort is perfectly
 certain to get into serious trouble, and
 in all continental countries the mau
 who attempts to pry into military SC.
 crets of any kind is running the most serious risks.
 Yet the two Japanese spies who were caught red handed in California havC
 been released because there was no law
 Next to the Dreyfus case, which con vulsed France in 1894 and 1897, the greatest spy sensation of recent years has been the Grimm case. Colonel Grimm was an officer in the Russian army, who, about eight years ago, got into serious money difficulties. To clear himself he sold confidential information to both Germany and Austria.
 At Grimm s trial it came out that he had received no less than fs0,000 from Germany and Austria. The man was q
 constituencies scoundrel-there is no doubt about that. But his fate was so awful that, bad as he was, it stirs one to pity. Trembling. whining, white faced, he was dragged to the place of punishment--a pitiable spectacle. There, before his regiment, his epaulets were torn of, his sword broken, and he was beaten with the broken half. His head was half shaven, he was stripped, dressed in convict attire, and chains were welded upon wrists and ankles. Then, in dead silence, he was started on the long journey to the northern wastes of Siberia.
 There is not country in Europe which has not had its spy scares, and it is a significant fact, that in nine cases out of ten the secrets soia have bought by Germany. In 1899 Italy re. solved to rearm her artillery, and for this purpose she bought from Messrs Krupp, for s4O,000, new type of gun, which served as a basis of experiment by her owp experts. Under very severe tests, conducted in utmost secrecy, an entirely new cannon was evolved, and a vote of s2,500,000 was passed to con struct guns of this type for the whole army. Suddenly it came out that the cherished plans were in the hands of Germany. The press and people raved, but how the information was carried, no one knows, or, if they do, it has been kept dark.
 It really seems useless to hope to keep secret the details of any new gun. Our own admiralty had a nasty scare this time last year. A document relat- ing to new quickfring gun of high power from which great results were expected mysteriously disappeared. A French newspaper has declared that our admiralty knows perfectly well that all the details of the gun are in Ger man hands.
 Austria, lying as she does in the very center of Europe, with Germany only waiting till the death of the Emperor Franz Josef to make grab for terri tory, is very much at the mercy of spies. In 1901 great sensation was caused by the arrest of several officials in the military department of the min istry of railways for selling military secrets to Germany.
 Two years later the plans for the of the Austrian army corps on the Russian frontier of Galieia were stolen. The theft was a most daring one, for the documents had been de- posited in a steel safe, locked and sealed in the divisional chancellory at The thief had broken in through the roof, and it was found that he had cut hole in the steel side of the safe. He got away and was never caught.
 Submarines have always been great object of the spy. France, the origin ator of the submarine fighting craft, has always prided herself on keeping the details of her underwater craft from the prying eyes of other countries secret service men. Yet, three years ago, Belgian spy, who is believed to have been in German pay, victimized the French naval authorities most clev- erly. M. Pelletan, minister of marine, received a visit from civil engineer, who claimed to have invented method of renewing vitiated air in submarines without raising the vessel to the sur face. He persuaded the minister to let him install his apparatus in the new submarine Triton.
 The inventor also stipulated that his baggage should not be examined by the customs, for fear they should pry into his secret He and his assistant spent twelve days aboard the Triton and at last the commander lost patience, and insisted upon inspecting what had been done. He pronounced the whole busi- ness fraud and kicked the men out of the ship They immediately disap- peared, no doubt taking with them the details of the whole mechanism of the s Weekly.
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