The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09

trayal by Uncle Sam. enjoy the $40
uniformity given for such information.
| His name will never be recorded by
the Treasury bookkeepers, nor even
| upon memorandum filed away by
| the revenue officials.
| The time when gold is to be shipped
| to the minis and coin TO the Treasury
and sub-treasuries is always a dark
State secret, shared only by the most
| trusted guardians of Uncle Sans strong
| box. TO intrust such informa ton to
! the ordinary telegraph might prove a
| means OF warning train robbers. so
l secret teleGraphic cipher code is used
TO transmit this vital intelligence
| Both the army and navy. too. have
| thei" secret cipher codes. all ready for
use should war break out tomorrow
and officers intrusted with their keys
would he guilty Of treason il communi-
| eating the secret to an outsider. Every
F., war vessel OF the fleet bears a code
] book Enclosed in a perforated case OF
/ lead, weighted to carry ii straight TO
| the bottom should the vessel be board
led or found to be hlling. And strict
! are tho Instructions demanding this
2; precaution of sinking the sccre, book
whenever it thus faces the danger OF
falling into the enemy's hands
Guarding MiIItnr, Secrets.
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navy easily rank, in vital Importance
! next 10 those OF the State Department.
In the fireproof hles of the war col
! leSes are secret plans for the immediate
! INVASION of every country with which
we are AT all likely to go to war. Uncle
sam will assure YOU that our scores of
| military and naval attaches scattered
| abroad collect their information open-
| " and above board, but you can safely
| "a hs.
| indignation. spurn safe opportunities of
| prying into the military secrets of the
! governments TO which they are ac-
/ credited. II is fact worthy of note
| that whereas only two OF these attaches
are detailed to European countries
with which we do not npprehend war.
we now have nine OF them stationed in
Japan.
But of the State secrets jealousIy
guarded by the military establishment
| the most tightly sealed of all relate
! to our coast defcnses. from which even
| American visitors are barred The
publication by a New York newspaper
Just before the Spanish'War of a crude
plan of the defense of Washington re-
suited in a change of these works at
cost OF hundreds of thousands of
dollars. In both the War and Navy
/ Departments are secret plans and spe-
nance. armament and ship construc-
ton upon which the governments pre-
/ paredness for war largely depends.
And the military proving grounds at
SANDY Hook and Indian Head are hedg-
ed about by barriers which none but
the initiated can penetrate when any
thing OF interest is doing"
! The mysterious net by which hun
dreds of army and navy deserters ara
caught every year is cloaked with
secrecy as !nky as that which protects
the various corps of Treasury spies
Any one who shows Uncle Sam where
he can lay hands on a deserter re
celves $50 for HIS trouble. also the as
surance that his identity will he pro
tected. And this generous fee has in
duced number of individuals TO take
UP this espionage as speciality. Sew
eral women devote the greater mart
OF their time to the undertaking.. but
VINO they and their brother sleuths are
or where they operate, is n state secret
winch Uncle sam will never unseal
sicuths Everywhere
In the Department of Justice is an
office that Is as full OF secrets as n
girls seminary, but--to abandon the
smile-they are newer leaking out.
| Ihis is the bureau OF Investigation"
whose vast corps of detectives is con-
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