The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-03-27
TRICKS OF FEMALE SPIES.
Beware of the WnnaM Who Lives by
PulloininS Secrets.

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and that YOU were ingeniously ell
| trapped and fell. Because | think
i that may show some sort Of leni-
ency bat it can not be light: ,he
crime is too great.
| IL was in these Impressive terms
that Mr.. Justice Darling addressed
! George Herbert ParrotJ. formerly 4
gunner in the navy. who a week OF
two AGO was found guilty OF COM
municating naval secrets TO a foreign
country, before sentencing him to
four years penal servitude, says The
| New York Telegraph. There is little
doubt that Parrott was fooled by a
woman SPY. whom he accidentally
met at music hall and who passed
on the information which she got
from him to those by whom she was
employed.
1t is striking illustration Of the
tricks and wiles OF female adven-
turess who lives by scheming to steal
state secrets, character which not
few people consider exists only IN
minds OF imaginative novelists.
AS a matter OF fact, this is only
ONLY of several instances which nave
come to light of late years showing
what a prominent part women actual
ly play in the secret service OF the
different countries. There was no
table affair at Shoeburyness four
wears ago. A German governess took
up her residence at Southend, three
miles from Shoeburyness, and said
that she was employed by several
prominent families to give lessons in
German to the children in their own
homes.
This naturally took her out and
about a great deal. Then came perl
odical visits to Shoeburyness, where
she formed an acquaintance with
Young naval officer whom she told
the people with whom she resided
she was going to marry. AS matter
of fact this was quite untrue, but 1t
helped her to keep up an acqualnt-
anceship which might otherwise
have looked suspicious:
1t was the naval officer himself
who gave the game away. For a
week or two he associated with the
girl, but her inquisitiveness concern
ing the guns and naval matters gen
erallv made him somewhat suspic-
ious and these suspicious were con-
firmed when she ultimately suggest
ed that for certain plans there was
good sum of money awaiting him.
The result was that he promptly in
formed his superior officer and the
Young woman was persuaded that the
country was a somewhat unhealthy
one for her to live in.
In regard to naval spies, however,
we are not better than our neigh
bors. and while foreign countries
have hundreds of spies in this coun-
try endeavoring to ferret out war Sc
crets, we have ours in their countries
engaged in the same work.
The spies are supplied with all the
money they want, but they can ex-
pect no assistance from their respec-
tive governments should they be
caught and they are fully alive to the
condition when they enter upon the
secret service for their country.
In military warfare women spies
are very much in evidence. Indeed,
their value is fully recognized by our
leading soldiers, and Lord Wolseley
actually states in his we'll known
"Soldier's Pocket Book 1.-The pur-
lieus of Leicester Square could sup
ply our arms with spies-.--All should
be petted and made a great deal OF,
being literally paid and large re-
wards given. them when they supply
any really valuable information. ,
During the South African war women
were employed as spies by this coun-
try to very large extent. Disguised
as nurses in the field hospitals, they
exercised their art Of fascination
over captured and wounded Beers,
and thus secured much valuable in
formation.
Short, sharp and merciless was the
treatment meted out to a young Rus
sian woman belonging to one of the
leading families in ST. Petersburg
who during the Russo-Japanese war,
endeavoRed to worm naval secrets
from a young Japaneses officer in
Manchuria after he had fallen vic
tim to her fascinating ways.
Forgetting all loyalty and patriot
| ism the young officer in his infatua-
ton agreed to furnish her with GER
tain plans and facts concerning the