The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-10-23
GERMAN SPIES
THICK AS FLIES
Hundreds Discovered and
Slain without Mercy.
Most Elaborate System OF Es-
pionage Since Time Of
Frederick.

France a. t8e outbreak OF war anu
IN these he Kaiser spent, according
TO ofhcial figures, 100000 year.
such a system OF espionage the world
has never before seen.
And they suffered horribly. By
hundreds and by thousands they
have been detected and shot. In the
last two months no incident has been
more common than to see bogus
CONNER cisl traveller or shepherd or
postman pusAed up against a wall
with a handkerchief across his eyes
and q row Of Lcbel rifles leveled at
him from ten feet away.
A few days ago / saw two men in
chains walking thru puddles on the
Chalons Road with a couple of gen
darm@s on bicycles behind them. One
prisoner was in overals, which is a
common spy disguise. while the 9TH
er was in the uniform of a French
private He was blond North Ger
man and his face had probably be-
trayd him. The two were marching
TO certain death.
learn that when the Germans re-
treat they often leave behind men
speaking French well. who await the
arrival OF the French and then try
10 creep up to the German lines with
a report.
In Rheims alone, according to an
account / heard. they have discover
ed 600 spies. The champagne indus
1ry, OF coarse. employed very many,
and nearly all the spies who have
been taken had lived in the district
1t is betaevad by the authorities of
the town Mat while the lombard
ment of Rheims was going on. there
were spies n the city with secret
wireless Installation who sent direc-
tons for IRE control to the batter
les three miles away. A close search
has bees 0ade thru the town, but
the police have not been able to dis
cover wsere the installation. if it
does cxist. was mounted.
The German devices for the con-
troll OF artillery fire are indeed very
ingenious. One of them, described to
INC by an officer of Chasseurs at !
AT Cheval, is to send on patrols of |
i]hians, who push right up to close /!
contact With the enemy's positions |
and Rhen make signals to their guns
IN the rear by using the belfries of
villages like gigantic candles. They !
climb to the top of the tower, soak
,he rafters with petroleum and then
set fire TO II. The steeple consequent
ly burns slowly downward like gil
gantic torch. and the guns. seeing
.t~, signal, know where to fire.
Nhother method is to have spies
disguised as shepherds moving
about with flocks of sheep in the
-ear OF the French lines. These spies
GRAVE The concealed position of the
French batteries, which are usually
DH5ted under the cover of woods
Then they lead their flocks to a point
iirectly in rear of this position.
Gerinas ecrOplane comes over
'bortiy after. sees the flock of sheep,
hT ii can not see the hidden guns,
'nu so is aele TO signal to the Ger
Iyln ayfhn l,nif 10,
Many OF those pastoral spies have
zen shot Oh TIE ground. They arous- |
% suspicion BY the persistence with
'Hrch they chose grazing for their
2ucks Immediately in the rear of
he same Fresch battery time after ,
im.. ,
81. have one cook and a hundred |
pies" the great Frederick used to {
ay. Since Frederick time espionage !
las been regarded beyond the Rhine
" an essential part of the machinery 4
or the dclBse of the monarchy. :
AS n military engine. espionage |
lad. been perfected at the date oil the |
German War. The organizer G
IA chief was Stieber Stieber whom =
bismarck described as King OF :
a
1t was Stieber who. when Freder-, T
Gu William was ready for his march /
IL France, had strewn with 10000
pies tho road from Paris to Berlin.
his me'hodicai organization bril- A.,
liant in conception host '
4 farmagB. market gardeners {
griculturai iabOrers. vine-growers. !
travellers. tutors. non i
officers in retirement, y
Ice Hooking widows at the desks of !
afes and restaurants. and several
bousasds 0f agreeable Mattresses
nd chamssmsids and eoyernesses
D beer ssiis. hotels aud private d
ouses. An these were, in facts the =