El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-21
AUSTRIAN AND
GERMAN SPIES
INVADE ITALY
Hundreds Are Now Engaged
in Gathering Impor-
tant information.
CoNTRABAND TRADE
GROWS PROFITABLE

liam ITALY NOV. IL 1ASi -
Nj large element in northern Italy
w Inch is strongly opposed 10
-.-,-,. entering the war. This element
"a 100 number of persons who are
= 1 t,t,1g bv supplying Austrian ai'u
plol-.,, .z, with contraband goods. ne
oelii- -s soods TO Germany these, days -
saie % .s,.,tive and the secret agents III
very i. do not want their solo
the 80 ,v-av as il would be II 1I'-lS
mine ~ arena on either sluei; 1,a-e
en- e-tl,eT. feature Of war tllii' rent
- large number OF 81 leSSr,,ed in her
". Germany is nor . M that she can
struggle about collecting lpLol ma
IN in this neutral trotcI
-rte notice have rteel.S mod FCleber
,legantly dressed W t13L,lo and kept a
who came 80 She made cusIOl
small ho1I. si-essl OF bringlhS ~ -, II
OF I0.- 5 German. girls WnSS., -, them
I lali portions and l 1lt com
~ italian officers lSos,,5ted. Whether
mission II Z vFere the outcome VI
wedding -,ftifary' secrets from tsi ~
they Wol,S their frances frleIl9s' the
la frieber woman 1ot"Di
N ne1
Twins - had nearly been w IF the
officer w - ON the track OI -
tuS 49,. ond arrested her sl,e was
,ee-t for a day or so IN pt MT across
l.+,-eved to the fronlleI 81 ,,o7,- work
couE ~ ..5cr and is probaDly NJ" ,aIinq
the Dol u' - hack. TO Vienna ~ ~ ~
ing heI, a great portion o. +bis
-I- for which she ST1s sen
country ond north italy in genera ma ma
4
e. voars swarmed W.. -l,+,,oi frontiers
IL .ot-+rian spies. on the aceua -, strict,
Austl ltI authorities are very - - :, :
the 80 -Tevelauions Of the pIssee me
Dut -t - the complete kho 49, as I'd
sno aT General staff not Oi. tS details
S.5iitarv methods but even en-, q affairs of
OF INC po.{Del inhabitants, nave PI .tio-e
the pl ~ not only along the LL oll
t hat I,-,teb and ward must pc KEEP
lhae MANY Spies In WIN MINI. .,,,-ca nj
Hero in Milan the zen the
German informatti!osnl, +s T" Many a mer-
IoIels. HSi1an who has had .9oEeii ~ ~
chant .s.it ~ correspondents IN a., ~
me- +i,g- house is wonderlhs
tben were spies ---era thousands
i8afore the war there were IN - 80
I2GsLLS-,aTe employed in Milan' anu 49,, ~
o. there are still hundreGs, ,1teI
siIfe5 every sort OF postum -'-og-,or-
-,,eTa GERS, clerks, forelgh. 49, am
Janrs industrial agents, AoL t-Sa,5eliers.
Cleii--,+erdents. commercial lIeN 80 ~
- H. VS. easy for them 70 a. ~
1ositions for Milan is pracllcIslls the
~ thumb of German oaltH Al
T3anca Commerciale, thougn oovva-
rectors declare thaL the jam
DAYS an italian pan =, r-.t.red.
t. is ste TO say that today tne -
nan and Austrian genera ST. L.5 ~
in their archives cOlil ,f business in
every important house OF and Ans
~t5erD italy. The German anu 80
49,, y7-ornen in Milan also as 1 H' -
- - carried out their sIlaIS %
osrSfonage. CocOttes, temInes SS tLajr
me singers we're all employ ~ T+oIiar
Dt1 -,ortfon But at last lhe Asat-. 90.
snlaAL ~ ~ I,ave awakened and 1 uh-
5-r-ts1d that an order has DeeIl Ia 49,,
80 80. officer seen IN the colli -,
- q German or Austrian "OliiS--
he severely dealt Win ar,- en-
The contraband tIaos - a ba nade
ts,51e- one as large profits can DS L -
~ - II At the present time OeI lll1-il
lido is entirely suspended ne 1870 sSg
Vrhich were held up on tAT for-
---be-s war broke out nave DSSI -,
w-5a5 10 their destinations anu We ,
We1 49, ere enormous transit trace
--tfcr masses through here 1of 9M -
e-iand and the north IS no" Deii'7
handled --,A,,, ,-arv consid-
.
- Germans are making serious e.
Sort 10 inveigle the Milanese INTO INV
contraband business.
German Agents In Milan; So,
During the past few weeks me
has been flooded with German, az ( ma Z,
R1anv of these have taken oIIlces ~ =,
Milan under assumed Italian names mes; =. -
Ike If appear that they are llSIlal
firms. There is no reason why tnes -
neonIe should not order for el1a AZ. ~
svyifzerland large quantities OF 1E ,lll5I
steel or American goods ior ueliESi ,
either in Milan or Switzerland
Fronn Switzerland those goods ar
cent across the border for Germany. ~
me same way "a foreign consul mere
told me that almost every day ne re-
eeived requests from presume ~ !, y
ETi1anese firms to sign invoices LOT ms
TIe was asked outright II the consul l,s,.il
would sign for German goods ne
consul pointed out that he would SCI
FOR italian goods but not for Germ !. l
Goods. But the goods are mere iIi
Milan. and you cannot tell the alI-
ference" he was told. yes put you
have to fill in the name of the factory
and our commercial agents can quick
Iy verify the truth" the consul re-
piled