Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-10-25
Countries Constantly E1l- gagged in Spying and Try
 ing to Suppress Spies.
SYSTEM BEST
Case of "Armgaard Carl Graves Proves ThOrOughness of Prussian Espionage-Treachery
 Every where.
(By Jasper Kemmis.)

(By Jasper Kemmls.) .... London, Oct. 24.-Very grave con siderations attach to the question o1 German espionage in this country. All countries spy. It is merely a matters of whether it is done well or ill., The German spy is the widest spread form of the evil existing In Europe. All have been aware of the disease in our midst, but none seem to have found the remedy.
 Since the outbreak of the war tho everest restrictions have been taken to obviate the leakage of news, cen- sours closely investigate every de- spatch from whatever source, tele- phone conversations in foreign languages are instantly cut off and every possible precuation is taken. Yet German spies in England-whose name is legion-laugh at British cr;~ mitive methods and manage to get all that transpire sat the front, through to Berlin and elsewhere, as we'll as I good deal more than is cleverly "col- lected" of a far more intimate char acter.
 How is this done? Much criticism is leveled at military and civil au-, thorities for the lenipncy displayed ill the civil courts, and elsewhere to- wards spies who are caught, more or less "in the act" The German methods of instantly shooting spies, or flaiging them are quoted, and Brit- ain is voted the easiest going and less suspicious country in the world.
 Urgent demands are made that all Germans Standardized or otherwise be chased" sfrom British shores, or enclosed in compound from which any attempt to escape would at once be followed by sentry's bullet.
 This is no easy matter and cannot be accomplished in moment, be the authorities ever so eager in it's pro- secution. That it should be done there is little room to doubt. The fault lies in the system which has permitted such shoals of Germans and other "undesirablesp to land upon Our shores without, until recently, any organized system of registration or means of tracing new arrivals. after they have been some little time in the country
 Germans Work We'll.
 When the aliens act was passed in 1905 certain restriction was impos- ed upon the scum of Europe being dumped" upon England's shores, aimed chiefly at persons from South ern Europe, landing here in a state of penury or disease without relatives or definite means of subsistence later on. This act had taken for it's model the American Act passed a few years previously, but was not nearly SC drastic or comprehensive in it's scope. It made no provision whatever for that more dangerous and higher class of intruder, from which the higher class of German spy has been taken.
 Now we have this terrible scourage In our midst, planted firmly in our social system. England has proved to the German spy the happiest of hunt ling grounds. He has been almost free from suspicion, the punishment if caught has been almost negligible quantity. Thus the fungus has taken root, it's tentacles have been spread In all directions and to eradicate the evil with one swoop of the officia. scythe almost physical impossibil- lty. As ye soY, so shall ye reap, and England will have to pay the price of her negligence, as others have done before her.
 Take the case of that master spy Armgaard Karl Graves, whose ma chlnations, it will be remembered. the New York American made consider able effort to rnmask some months ago without avail, owing to the ahso- slute refusal on the part of the Brit lsh government authorities to- give any information about him. Grave :, Is as we'll known in America as he Is here. His skill and ingenuity at his trade is well set forth in a book he has just published entitled "The Secrets of the German War Office" Whether it be exaggerated, sensa- tlonal or distorted record of facts, 1t pr0ves beyond doubt tho tho-cuys. ness of the German spying system. the utter unscrupulousness of those even in high places and the splend ia efficiency with which the work al,o,- ted them is carried out by the Ger- man professional spy.
 Here We get the real answer to our question as to how it is done. N, German spy is sent out on lis diff: Cult mission without a completa tralnlng in the art of discovering the secrets of the country whose "inteli gence' department he has to probe. A stern code of ''dos' and "don'ts" Is thoroughly instilled into him. He must learn--just like trained bur,- iar-how to assume disguises ann acts parts at moments notice. Ao- soiute silence in all company es to Ills mission must be adhered to. Too much association with petticoats, who may De decoy ducks, is discounter- ahced. He becomes a number. not a uQlt. from inc dov bo orto~.