The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-22
EVERYBODY UNDER SUSPICION
IN BELLlCERENT COlNTRIFs
"A" o. Europe is spy-Crazy-Let a Person 1o,
ing Mob. 'oieeo upon BY Hoot-

~oecldediy dam
selo9s TO be a spy over there II is
oecloeoly dangerous even ia Iool, Eni9
II SPY, act like a spy: or he unah m
prove you aren't a spv. for 80 ~
every ten persons shot as snies ~
- W, one perhaps, really seeLing :,
tof1nation to give to the enemI M
"h arllcle IN the Chicago Tribune.
Europe just now is sDy crazv
the words of WeigIe, "eTcrv 49, IA
maid and every waiter is S,1snio;avI
ana suspicious" The American Mo
ouhSleS because Of the strange Ian
SuaSe ana because of the strange enc
eohlS ana ecaus he is trying his best
time of it. nara
\ dangerous person is q snv
mar who is in a position to ~ =
concerning guns anG
trelcheS n the weakness or strangth
u an enemy at a given point is con
'loered as valuable an asset in an
army as an entire corps
Let d person who doesn't look iust
flSht walk down a street in London
Paris, Petrograd, or Berlin. and he is
Immediately bounced upon by what
soon becomes a hooting mob Wben
the officers arrive he is searched az,
ne spot, his clothes being stripDed
rom MIN Where he stands, for there
> always fear that he NAV throw
away ell route 10 the mill
cary headquarters. Indeed. since tho
war began more than one American
woman Is known to have been shorn
III nef clothing under suspicion that
d dangerous spy was Disgusting her
sex.
4 Frcnch automobile is approach
ing the French lines along the River
-Ni5ne. it is filed with men in French
uniforms and with two nuns. The
crench sentinel stops the party. He
nndS the entire lot to be German sol
dlerS. Action is about to be taken
When an officer in a French uniform
lldes up to take charge. One of the
aehtlneIs Is cautious enough to ask
the officer for his papers. In the
papers he finds one letter wrong. The
next morning the whole bunch-pas-
SengerS of automobile and the DhOny
olhcer who rode up on horseback
are shot, bu it was a close call.
Il shall never forget what a hard
time / had Owe there taking motion
pictures" says Edwin r. Weigle, the
chicago Tribune'S camera man in the
war zone. mo sooner would / get
started turning the crank than a sem
tinel would approach, en,an my
papers, n take the most a~ggraVating
pains to read them all through and
identify my photograph before allow
ing me to continue in my work.
The sentinel would be extremely
serious until he had thoroughly o
WINGED himself / was not a spy, and
then, relaxing, he would invariably
about the camera. They
weren't afraid of the pictures l was
raking-although even in times of
peace photographs Of Notifications are
forbidden-they were afraid l was
merely pretending to be a p%hotogra-
Dher."
/. But it is not merely since the war
-.began that the countries of Europe
shave had such a fear for spies. Dur
ing these recent years, while Europe
was becoming more and moro an
armed camp, the suspicion Of spies
has been constantly increasing, and
FOR a good reason.
Perhaps the most useful of all
types of spy is the nt~ernatiOnal cour-
resan, whose achievements Will never
DE known today or tomorrow, out
who, in her own twisted way, helps to
make the history of Europe says a
british officer who served in h Ger
man army, and who has just written
4 book called The German Army
From Within"
The great Frederick is reported TO
have said. i have one cook n "a
hundred spies Today the position Is
Il little broader, for inc Germany mas
seen herself as the future apex OF
world power the cOurteSan Is AWAY
welcomed in Berlin and other large
towns and furnished with nipple 1uhos
for work in other countries.
These are q curious cOsmopolltan
mostly Partisan, thous1
they display no national idiosyncrasS'
and il would be difficult for the Cd
server to ascribc to them II parllcu-
lar nationality. They will appear
everywhere as the phrase goes, ex-
oensively gowned and accompanleo ps
nnfal Il
and NAV perhaps acquire a reputation
for sailors homes of rest and SO forth
Next to the highly placed person
age comes the humber spy VINO gan
ers information when and Where n'
can Quiet, u~npicturesque people
whom we should never suspect OF lne
~melodramatic calling Of spy. nav
been brought up at Bow Stree', az
ono hos recognized among them wait:
ers, hairdressers. hall porters an:
other folk in obscure walks Oh ny:
Dr. Armaggard Karl Graves, IN nn
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