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 %,

LONDON, Sept. %.
The British Official Press Bureau in it
last statement describes how the terri
tory, over which the armies have been
lighting 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 difficult to avoid further refer
ence to the subject They have evidentl,
never forgotten the saying of FredericE
the Great: When Marshal Soubine goes
TO war he is followed by a hundre
cooks; when l take the field l am pre-
ceded by a hundred spies
Indeed, until about twenty years ago
there was paragraph in their field
service regulations directing that the
service of protection in the Aeid'-e g
outposts and advance guards-should al
ways be supplemented by a system Of
espionage.
Though such instructions are no longer
made public the Germans, as is wei
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 colored lights
at night and puffs of smoke from chin
neys by day Pseudo laborers, working
in the fields between the armies, have
been detected conveying information and
persons in plain clothes have acted as 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 local!-
ties, evacuated by the Germans i'm order
10 furnish them with intelligence,
"Onc spy of this kind was found by
our troops hidden In church tower. His
presence was only discovered through the
crratic movements OF the hands Of the
church clock, which he was using TO
signal 10 his friends by means of an i'm
provised semaphore code Had this man
not been Sei2ed II is probable he would
have s!gnaled to the German artillery At
the time of thcil arrival the exact lJCa-
tion NJ the Headquarters and stan. \
high explosive shell would then have
mystcriously dropped on the building.
women spies hay, also becu caught.
secret agents have been found at the
railroads observing entertainments and de
trainments, 1t is a simple matter FOR
spies 10 mix with the refugees moving
about 10 their homes; difficult for our
troops who speak neither French nor
German to detect them
The French have found II necessary
to search villages and also casual way
fagers on the roads for carrier pigeons
Among the precautions taken by US 10
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
D. m. and m.
Inhabitants may not quit their homes
after r. m.
No person may on any prrtext pass
through the British lines without an
authorization countersigned by a British
officer