Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-05
GERMANY'S SPY
system IS BEST
Teutonic Network of Secret
Agencies Amazes the
Americans.
RESORT TO PAPERS
German Secret Service Officials En-
snare Help Through Alluring Ad-
yertisements and Then In.
timidate Victims.
(By La Reconteuse.)

Paris, July At is difficult to con-
vey to the American reader any ade-
quate idea of the qualifications and
magnitude of the spy system in opera
ton on the continent of Europe. While
it is admitted that France herself has
her own elaborate secret service, it
is generally known that it is by no
means equal to that of Germany. The
teutonic network of secret agencies is
simply amazing. Recently at Rheims
a youth was arrested Oh a charge of
espionage but released on proving
that he had been lured into the tolls
of an agent provocateur, who had in
serted the following alluring adver-
| tisement in a local newspaper:
Representatives required for easy
work. good commission, no special
| knowledge,; write, with reference, L.
P, 305, Poste Restante, Central Of
flee, Basle."
In reply the young man received a
| request to furnish some information OF
simple nature, for which he was
paid handsomely. Fortunately for
| him, he was arrested before he had
compromised himself to such degree
that the mere threat of being de-
nounced to the French police would
have rendered him the willing slave
Of the German secret intelligence bu-
reau.
| Up to five years ago Metz was the
| headquarters of German espionage
for France, but since then, in conse-
quence of certain revelation, the gen
Get HOE tic n
chief one is now in Switzerland, at its
head being Major Won Dock, of the
Eighth Bavarian regiment, whom
French spies only know as Paul
| Lopoldus," and who directs operations
in the branch offices of Frankfort
Metz, Straburg, Luxembourg, and ev-
en- at Nancy. Captain Schultz, who is
in charge of one of these branches
was the man French spies addressed
as Madame Ernestine Milon" at Metz
but the post office authorities were
| in the secret, and the captain received
such correspondence without diff
Guilty or delay at his residence al
| Trevcs. Another branch is in the
hands of the famous Schwartz, who
was once a French police commissary
Schwartz resides near Thionville, but
he spends most Of his time in France
and although he has yet to serve q
sentence of five years for espionage
the police never quite succeed in
catching him. Yet he is never fal
from Nancy. for the goth army corps
is his especial study.
Writing Under Stamps.
| In order to correspond with his
emissaries he used picture postcards
largely. Only too late the French
cabinet noir discovered that by steam
ing the stamp and removing it some
such information as this would have
come to light: "A. B., 159,2OO." This
meant "a. B., Register No. 1853, re-
quires 200 francs" The postmarks
told where the correspondent was.
Yet another form of espionage has
just come to the notice of the French
military authorities but how the
methods employed in this case are to
benefit the rival power responsible
for them is not quite clear.
The scene of the discovery is Con-
stantine in Algeria, where assertions
from the French army became so pro-
life that suspicion was aroused. 1t
was finally discovered that deser-
ton agency was in operation and it
is alleged that it was subsidized by a
foreign nation. When a deserter prov
ed to the agency that he had quilted
his military duties he was given a re-
ward varying from fifty to one hun
dred dollars and shipped to some near
port in Europe but outside France. I