Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-29
WOMEN SPIES AID ARMY
OF KAISER IN BIG BATTLE
Many German Agents Captured, Says
British Statement.

LONDON, Sept. q.
The British Oflcial Press Bureau in its
J last statement describes how the terri
| tory, over which the armies have been
! fighting for weeks. is infested with Ger
| man spies. Women agents OF the Kaiser
have been captured. The official state
| ment says
Espionage plays so large a part in
the conduct OF the war by the Germans
that it is dificult to avoid further refer
ence to the subject They have evidently
never forgotten the saying Of Frederick
the Great: when Marshal Soubine goes
to war he is followed by a hundred
cooks; when take the field / am pre-
ceded by a hundred spies
Indeed, until about twenty years ago,
there was "A paragraph in their field
service regulations directing that the
service Of protection in the held'-c. &.
outposts and advance guards-should al
ways be supplemented by system of
espionage.
Though such instructions are no longer
made public, the Germans. as is well
known, still carry them into effect.
Apart from the more elaborate arrange
ments which were made in peace time
for obtaining information by paid agents,
some OF the methods which are being
employed for the collection or convey
ance of intelligence are as follows
Men in plain clothes signal TO the
German lines from points In the hands
Of the enemy by means OF cOlorcd lights
at night and puffs OF smoke from chin
neys by day Pseudo iaborcrs working
in the fields between the armies. have
been detected conveying information. and
persons In plain clothes have acted ad-
vanced scouts to the German cavalry
when advancing. German officers and
soldiers in plain clothes or In French or
British uniforms have remained in lOCaii-
ties, evacuated by the Germans in order
to furnish them with intelligence
zone spy of this kind was found by
our troops hidden i'm church tower. His
presence was only discovered through the
crratic movements of the hands of the
church clock, which he was using to
signal to his friends by means of an Inn
provised scmaphore code. Had this man
not been seized II is probable n" would
have signaled to the German artillery at
the time of their arrival the exact lOca-
tion of the headquarters and staff. =
high explosive shell would then have
mysterously dropped on the building.
Women spies have also been caught;
secret agents have been found ut the
railroads observing entertainments and de-
trainments. II is a simple matter for
spies to mix with the refugees moving
about to their homes; difficult for our
troops, who speak neither French nor
German, to detect them
''Thc French have found ii necessary
to search villages and also casual way
farcrs on the roads for carrier pigeons
Among the precautions taken by us to
guard against spying is the publication
of the following notice printed in French
and posted up:/
Motor cars and bicycles not carrying
soldiers in uniforms may not circulate
on the roads.
The inhabitants may not leave the
localities where they reside between s
p. m. and m.
Inhabitants may not quit their homes
after p. m.
through tho British lines without an
countersigned by a British
officer"