The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-10
Military SECRETS
/ CLOSELY GUARDED
.rmany Is Fearful of Spies and
usrsfully Watches American
and English Visitors.
FERAN Is USED ROUGHLY
Arrested and jailed for Show
|ur CASUAL Interest in the Fir
Ing of Siege Guns.
eFEsAN Is USED ROUGHLY
ny MALCOLM CLARKE.

--isI Cable 20 The Tribune.
@ERLIN, Sept, s.-Gernany Is spy
4. espscially 80 since the Morocco sit
.|on developed. Foreigners. especially
<uBh and Americans. are watched
<ly from the time they enter Ger
~ until they leave.
xr q foreigner 10 show any unusual
resi- In the military or naval affairs
he empire Is 10 make OF himself q
|,tct and the most innocent inquiries
4 ieble 10 lead 10 serious results.
recent Incident which occurred fairly
~tSaies the point. A clerk in the
o1ice at Gmunden, named Courtain,
has served the state faithfully for
a years. was. with his family,
ling his holidays at the house OF a
~ who is $50 In the public serv-
~ Vl!seck, in the Upper Palatinate,
ne suggestion OF his host. the two
Pm made al excursion 10 The neigh
pa 0! the artillery range OF Grafen-
There they heard that on the fol-
8 day Important practice with Siege
was 10 take place. As an old ar
Courtaln was much interested in
ne decided TO remain over night,
obtained at the military headquar-
card OF admission 10 the range.
MS requests for permission TO
tnA siege gun trials was refused,
Ing the same evening over his glass
esr az The Inn, ne cot into conyer-
with TWO artillery commits
oincers, to whom he confessed his
~ oo.sin a iew mementoes OF MS
ln me shape Of fragments OF splin-
ynsus. lie was told that these were
~ 10 De purchased at headquar-
gui were now disposed of wholesale
oealer in old iron. AT The same ,ine
limited that for people in the no
Of MS interlocutors there were other
" getting hold of such things,
nis senses sharpened By thirty
service az a public official, Cour-
oentsd Danger here, and hastily de-
The suggestion.
sliced by Military,
Mured 10 rest suspecting nothing.
s'neen and O'Clock in the morn
was "akeneS by a loud and per
knocSing at the door, He
IA. anu vas rudely shaken into
~ nahgiuIness by the sight OF a
.s,as aItrJ5iIery officers and a body OF
ana hIa clothes and luggage were
nlng. Special and persistent vs ,Sl -
were made after a "canara,' -
noo neen seen near him on the
as evening. This Instrument uIti-
tIhed OUT 10 be a pocket electric
v.,onBihs 10 the landlord OF the
Itv h.h .-h vas able TO establish his
~ ,nedh3 OF d passport and n
NJ letters, and in due time was
AZ Own resources. AT midday he
sns following day, however two
~, ~, appeared IN the house and as
HI,r tsnsaGRed both his luggage and
49,, .au,lIy- A couple OF days later
normng 0 d. D CLOCK IN
Thrown INTO Jail.
ms time CourtaIn had be,,r "a
sroAyInaking sro In the Palatinatc y y
mNcn for HIS nerves. and
n,,' Rreking up his traps. he fled. viii
nlrucr " vi WHAT he trusted would be
M :, cnmate OF Nuremberg. But
ii hny stepped out of the train
H., DOT or refuge they were CON
"a an a. party OF detectives. who
tbey 'seoIting them 10 the Rathas.
Aee. an, Mere again thoroughly
nlIovea ~ ehoush the wife and child
I'd NJ 20 20. Courtain himself was
In q n- morning he was con-
7 -l,nir a. PRISON van. with a cartioa n
X.ERa 70 the examining goal
! 4 n.npnt spcnt hve days in a filthy cell
sfrsnts nights in q dirty bed, where
acted skin disease
|hforrnad OF thls period he YVES at
/ 1ebnnn that one OF the non-corns'
III h,r ''e had spoken. had informed
ncldis- e'aling that he had asked
q shr,nr procure him an unused
! that hs hs"1l and that he had also
friends in "Tpe up correspondence
~ difficulties, "'iu was In pc
Gs iscts show how dsnss-or, :,
~ avsn s foreigners to show in This
ElI|tsrv me most innocent Interest
Soldier Halted Kaiser.
, snrsting n,aNg anecdote Is told Of the
] Ing Ssthenhaes. viii His majesty was
9. .H9al uniSor,, couple OF adiutants. all
\, the see: he was resnecffrlIv net III
.lPcosT,vce q soldier on duty. who did
- IN ai MN The man said he bad
1sactfcn w moody To pass. as shoot
HH Pedestrians, '' 'ne'o was
md rotro.cnsS .nShkgd him for the warn.
~ dIstaaca his steps. Going 10 ?
4 4 on ibs however, his majesty sa,
cs. Ams 9e sends and watched fbs I
" II Shl.sT ehsrrdit IL y, was over he asked tht tft
amo. aiso a ns TO give the sentry. ir
l1| ss,r,own prince and Jv n-,,,o.o ,,
\ ads sons. have been visiting Gel.
ss Anh ,as :, residence re-, Of s"S the Crane sn.i
UfIt was 'aSia, the princess's ncIh.
that AT That pretty little Rs,ti,
IN csn, sne young people made love 70,
g The crown crown summer house in III,
mt Question '''S.ee popped. the ALI
y aliIl Asspy ssp!i e couple as ever T exissed d
= -alrasyysn asynpIhinsly IiTray IN love with eaci
mes. Tn. "e paving visit TO tn,
70 "a tSe d,G a15,t not take a special train AIM
ran IN 1Ilainary I,p onS express The smal mai
,bt treln and p dnn md down the corrido
nj Russia,r R, little boys. and wore Ia,
Ie a.. httels" that lhcy ai