Arizona republican., 1914-09-29
Eyewitness at Field Mar
 shal French's Headquar- ters Gives Realistic De- scription of the Work of King Georges Troops
GERMANS FIRE
 ON EACH OTHER
Twentieth German Infantry
 Attacks Own Men, At
 tempting to Carry Out all Advance of Forces i'll the Dark .
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIspATcH1


 LONDON, Sept. 2S.-The official news bureau issued tonight a de- scriptive account of the operations in France of the British force, and the French armies in immediate touch with it, communicated by an eye witness at present at the headquar- ters of Field Marshal French. This account, which supplements that 's- sued on September 24 from general headquarters, follows:
 September 25. - For four days there has been a comparative Hull all along our front. This has been ac- ccmpanied by a spell of fine weather. though the nights are now much cooler. One cannot have everything. however, and one of the evil results of the sunshine has been the release of flies, which are torpid during the wet days Advantage has been talk en of the arrival of endorsements. to relieve by fresh troops, the men who have been on the firing line for some time. Several units, therefore, received their baptism of fire during the week. Since the last letter left general headquarters, evidence has been received which points to the fact that during the counter attacks on the night of Sunday. the Twen- tieth. German infantry fired into each other as a result of an attempt to carry out the dangerous expedient of eonverging an advance in the dark.
 Espionage plays so large a part
 in the conduct of the war by the Germans it is difficult to avoid refer ence to the subject. They evidently | have. never forgotten the saying of | Frederick the Great: "When Marshall Soubise goes to war he is followed by a hundred cooks, and when I take the field I am preceded by hundred spies"
 Indeed, until about twenty years ago. there was paragraph in their field service regulations directing that the service of Protection in the field (outposts and advance guardsp are always to be supplemented by a system of espionage
 Though such instruction is no longer made public. the Germans, as is well known, still carry them into effect Apart from the more elab- crate arrangements which are made in peace time for obtaining informa- tion by paid agents, some of the methods which are employed for the collection or conveyance of intelli- gence are as follows:
 Men in plain clothes signal to German lines from points in the hands of the enemy by means of col ored lights at night, and puffs os smoke from chimneys by day Pseudo laborers working in the fields be- tween the armies have been detected conveying information, and persons in plain clothes acted as advance scouts to the German cavalry.
 German officers and soldiers in plain clothes. or in French or British uniforms, remained in the localities evacuated by the Germans in order to furnish them with intelligence. "One spy of this kind was found by our troops hidden in a church tower and his presence was discov- cred only through the cratic move ment of the hands of the church clock, which he was using to signal
 to his friends by means of an i'm provised semaphore code. Had this
 man not been siezed it is probable ne would nave signalled to the Gel .
 man artillery at the time Of their