The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-09-18
SPIES Are
ETECTED
in LONDON
British Make Use Of Ruse to Gather
in Foreigners Who Gather Mil
itary Information for
Germans
DOZENS BROUGHT
In AL UNE lime
Scotland Yards Constantly Work
ing to Rid Nation Of Men
Working for Other
Countries
BY WILBUR S. FORREST.

UNITED Press Staff Correspondent }
London, Sept. 6.--(By mail. The
admittedly thorough and efficient Ger
man spy system is up against a most
thorough and efficient stump in Eng
land.
One of the unhealthiest obstacles
for agents OF the enemy's intelligence
department is the anti-spy section OF
Scotland Yard.
Official reports, just issued, show
that ten alleged spies of various ma
tionalities, all of whom were declared
TO be working for Germany, were
bagged before any one of them had
been in England three weeks -Four
readily confessed.
This list, however, represents but a
fractional part of the most recent
fruits of the British dragnet. On two
occasions, 1t is unofficially declared,
the authorities in London cleverly ma
neuvered to round up dozens of spies
who had been operating in London
in the guise of British army officers.
The method was as simple as it was
effective. The war office is said TO
have informed all army officers in
the metropolitan area to refrain, on a
certain day of recent date from trav-
cling on any trains of the great system
of underground railways of the me-
tropolis. The order was strictly
obeyed. Every officers uniform that
boarded an underground train that
day contained spy. The spy bag
was full that night.
Several DAYS later the war office is
said to have repeated its warning, this
time instructing officers to keep off Of
motorbuses that travel by hundreds on
London's busiest streets. The result
was similar. The spy bag was filled
again.
But this is only one of the many
methods through which spies are
caught in England Another is chem
istry.
1t was chemistry that told the Brit
ish authorities that what appears to
be an American passport is not always
the real article. A government chem
ist informed the authorities that the
great and powerful read seal of the
American state department had been
forged by the enemy that the secrc-
tary of states signature had been pho
tographed from a genuine American
passport in Germany and applied to
a spurious document carried later by
a spy in England II was the chem
lists proof, linked with other features
that followed. that caused the spy to
confess that he was furnished the
forgery to obtain military secrets in
England.
This forgery is today In the hands
of the British authorities for compar-
ison with other suspicious looking doc
dments bearing the seal of the United
States.
Americans travelling through Eng
land to or from continental countries
will henceforth be subjected to the
most thorough examination and sur
geillance by the British authorities
American passports in England, in
he future, if there is the least doubt
Of their validity, must bear the tests
If the government chemists.
Americans must not feel i'll toward |
he British authorities il necessary
precautions are taken to prevent the
Use of spurious American passports in
his country" said high official OF
he war office to the United Press.
They must realize that Germany is
lot above forging the official seal of
he American state department and
las, perhaps, forged scores of these
documents in an attempt to safe-con-
Iuct their spies into England and other
countries. Every Ameri-
an citizen entering England in future
must come with clean bill of health
asiIy proven and above all, with a
assport that will defy the analysis OF
ur chemists"
Scotland Yard is assisted in spy
by all branches of the gov
and even by the boy scouts
nd girl scouts.
A striking case Of spy detection