New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-20

here r. ErFiA,t o. us5 long suspected that nu-
n,,orr waiter BE-, rfi1fsry ard other clubs in
fashiorgblc rertaps~ai. and cafes were on TIE
Gerrar nv sytttHr pay list" In no eating
place IT, ..ordon TO-DAY there - German who ia
not waicneC ~ rs~: there arc few. if any, Ger
mans employed IN clubs and restaurants, for tn"
press loac since joined in the cry TO have these
aliens placed in concentration camps.
II had como to light before the war that
moneved Germans thought to be officers with
government money--were trying to get informa-
ton from young officers in financial distress. lt
is one of the accepted methodist is known that
the Germans aud other nations have been work
ing in this way of late years. and it is fully borne
out in the scandals at the different capitals.
On good authority it is stated that there is
separate arm of the military service. in Germany
which will always pay for information from Ger
mans or any one else who may send in plans or
photographs or written descriptions of localities
which the military anxious to possess. win
the first remuneration goes the assurance that
even more will be paid for additional nforma-
ton. If that is attractive to the would-be spy ne
sends something else, whereupOn he is Informed
that he can become listed securer Of the desired
intelligence and placed on a salary.
THE MACHINATIONS OF THE GERMAN SPY
SYSTEM
1t he accepts the system soor provides him with
4 Cookbook, in which there arc certain prln'ea
Questions to be answered, and vixen that - done
IN" book is sent back These question DOCKS arr
framed 80 as to cover every vital matter Inc
population, the average wealth, the roads leading
TO anG from the fortified approaches. the NUMBER
of soldiers maintained in certain forts ana so OF
down the line, until when the system pores over
it It will find that !: has very complete recoru
of a certain section. The man who SENDS II IN
!nay even get a bonus for good work, and forever
after he is hidden 20 keep In touch with the sys-
ten.
Las: week when Premier Asquith was asked now
many spies had been shot in Great Britain since
the outbreak OF the war he answered that none
had met such an end, but this does not change inc
frame of mind Of many persons here who IhslS'
hat the government authorities have shot as many
as three hundred. 1t is known that scores nave
been arrested in Southampton and other ports
that still others have been found too near forum
cations. There is mystery about the murderous
assault on towerman at principal railroad
junction near Liverpool last week The towermah
wac stabbed and but FOR the timely arrival OF
another towerman an Oncoming express wouid
have been wrecked. 1t is not known yet VINO
stabbed the man. A sentry near one Of the mop
;Ii,ation camps was shot when he ordered man
10 halt and the assaart is yet to ne found. NO
ono doubts the presence of spies, and, moreover,
those are taken TO be the deeds of spies or PAD
agents OF Germany.
Hardly day passes without the newspaper
recording the presence of spies in France or Ger
many. In Belgium a German spy was found with
9 Red Cross badge on. lie was given hearing
short distance from where he was found which
barpened to be near Brussels, His explanation
wa. considered too Rimsy. As told in the DIS