Norwich bulletin., 1911-08-11
Foreign Spies
 Secretly Work
MUCH EVIDENCE OF THEIR ACT
 IVITY HERE.
BLUEPRINTs OF DEFENCE
Found in Streets of calcutta-Men Found With Drawings and Maps War Department on the Alert.

Washington, Aug. 10.-Startling evil dence of the pernicious activity of for elgn spies is in the possession of the army general staff, which accounts for the serious consideration that is now being given to the most trif1ing reports of attempts to discover the military secrets of the country. Some of tn ,se incidents are of comparatively recent date, and 1t was upon the submission of such information to a secret session of the judicial committee of the house that legislation was secured at the the severe punishment of spies in tima of peace.
 Blueprints Found in Calcutta
 An Engilshman in Calcutta picked up in the streets a small packa~ Of blueprints showing every detail of the defenses of Corregidor Island, the main stronghold of the United States in the Philippines. The prints were not copies of any drawings or charts prepared for use of the United States, but were evil dently the result of a careful and de- liberate investigation of the official and confidential records of the United States. The existence of the blueprints made it evident that there were other copies in existence The Englishman sent the papers to the war department here but the most careful investiga- : tion failed to discover the means by which the information had been ob- tained.
 Hotel Waiter Was a Spy.
 A waiter in a Seattle hotel was found to be a foreign officer in dis guise, possessing many drawings ard notes he had made of the Pacific coast.
 Army Captain on Secret Mission.
 An American ambassador notified the state department that certain cap- hnl rtracr 4T tl1o @Ix country where he was stationed had been detailed to spend three years se- cretly visiting the American countries and studying their military conditions.
 Secretly Studied Panama Canal.
 Even the Panama canal has not es- caped; one of the engineers found a foreign officer, an attache to one of the American countries, secretly studying the canal from a, strategic standpoint or seven other officers of the same na- tionality in the United States gather ing military information.
 Prisoner Found With Maps.
 A New York policeman arrested an American for trivial offense and found in his trunk military maps and information which convinced the off cials that he was in the employ of a foreign government.
 Offered S25,oo0 for Plans of Defenses.
 But tho incident that convinced the judiciary committee of the necessity for the protective law occurred less than year ago in the Philippines. An enlisted man in the engineers was of ferad S25.000 by two foreign officers for the plans of the defenses of Cor regidor Island. Being the official pho tographer, he had ample opportunity to get all the necessary pictures. having first informed his superior officer of the attempt.
 Two Foreign Spies Captured.
 A trap was laid and the two foreign spies were captured But habeas cor pus proceedings were obtained and they were released, as there was then no law in the Philippines or in the United States under which they could be pros ecuted.