The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-05
SPIES Of MANY
NATI0NSCR0WD
BALTIC PORTS
Heroes, Too. %Smugglers, Ex-
change Gamblers and
Fugitives There.
NJ IN THRONES
OF SECRET WORKERS
sp,cidi Correspondence to Tur Sux.

Special Correspondence to TuE SuS.
srDcKuoLM. Nov. 2O.-Just now the
Baltic is the sea Of adventure. Nor
mally 1t is a dull. insipid sea. After
war began the Baltic woke up a little.
INT its liveliness was limited by Grand
Admiral Tlrpitz's command of the sea.
Now about ten British submarines,
backed by some Russian submarines.
s,aye awakened the ordinarily quiet
waters. All Baltic ports are nests of
1 espionage. adventure. patriotic heroism
| and roguery, chiefly the last named.
! stockholm ignores the war. but 1t Is
full Of Russian and German jobbers
who gamble In exchange. Copenhagen
IS the chief centre Of German espionage.
rhe saloons and fourth rate hotels are
.hronged with German agents. Libau.
since Won Hindenburg captured II las;
summer. is the headquarters of a Ger
nan motorboat corps which does scout
ins in Riga Gulf. Hernosand. Oxelo-
snnd and other small Swedish eastern
ports are the homes of scores OF ma
rooned German merchant captains whose
ships have been torpedoed or bottled up.
The l~iveliest places are Haparanda
and Torne1. frontier townlets on the
1Tornea En- River. which divides sweden
/ from Russian Finland. These townlets.
thirty miles from the Arctic Circle. are
crowded with spies. ~contraband mug
| glers and fugitive prisoners. The Rus
! sian gendarrne Col. Abassoff discovered
Two German spies in Tornea last week.
With six gendarmes he pursued the sus-
poets to Karungi. further UP the river,
and besieged them in a house. After
two hours battle the two Germans
~ four Russians Law dead.
Pass British Submarines.
IN coming here from Copenhagen. via
Malmo. one has to cross the Sound. the
entrance gate of the British submarines.
The Sound is an international waterway.
but ii lie also territorial, being less than
three miles across at the narrowest
point. The Swedes own the east side
and the Danes the west. The other en-
frances, the Great and Little Belt. which
an entirely owned by Denmark. were
mined against submarines In October.
1914.
Danes and Swedes could not agree
about mining the Sound. The Swedes
regret this, for the submarines have
disturbed the halCyon calm OF the Bal
III and injured Sweden's trade with Ger
many.
After England had got at least four
submarines through. Germany mined the
sound. Mines were planted in a big
Triangular patch in the south and Ger
man iatrol boats we're set to watch II.
At least two English submarines have
SYo' between or under the mines and
NOR may come any day.
From the Malmo steamer could be
seen G~ermany's tremendous measures
ggalDsf stbptu ripas South nf tho ,ptna
field. on the horizon. is n forest of
nasts and tunnels belonging to the big
Aoilla Of cruisers. %gunboats. armed
trawlers and motor patrol boats. Their
business is to watch for and destroy
submarines that get past the mines.
MEAD Of the fotilla flew a h~ydroplane.
Inc Malmo steamer captain said that
when he had sailed a boat south a few
days before he had counted about fifty
German craft OF different kinds all on
me lookout, From the Sound down to
ne broad water between Sweden and
Rueen Island every mile OF sea has a
small German warship on the watch.
Spy Captured by Russian ms.
A. Copenhagen the police brought
ahoard for transit to Russia an allesed
'py. In the Baltic ports are warns
OF purely military and naval spies who
serve bell.gerent Governments, many
trade spies and large numbers OF
SPIES Of the neutral Baltic Powers
whose work Is to spy or spies.
the trade spies. all British, haunt
~mmercial ports, Their function is to
collect facts about Scandinavian firms
Usde with Germany, which firms trade.
What they sell and to whom. London
axes care that oversee goods consigned
U scandinavian firms which trade with
'erfndny dp not reach the Arms. The
Udde spies pose as language teachers or
RUNNERS. Many have been expelled.
rour months back England's commercial
aoache, r%hilpotts. had to be withdrawn
BECAUSE Sweden charged him with
trade espionage
Mile, Assanovitch, a handsome, black
eyed Russian girl. who, posing as gov
rhess, spied OF a great scale, was ex-
PEELED last week. The spies who spy
On spies are mostly Swedish. They
Na'ch all foreigners. particularly those
VINO speak English. Two days after an
.hshshman reached Stockholm he Wis
Ned a dentist, Half an hour later an
VINO rs patient was.
copenhagen IL the centre of the false
passport business. Danes point to the
osmopolit" Hotel and say There can
~e mad passports of any nationality"
me ia'S" passport business was started
N order TO save Russians from cap
ure ny herman cruisers. The Russians
travelled from Stockholm to Raumo In
finland on steamers Of the Swedish
COMPANY Svca.