The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-05-07

car. however. was reported that night
and the next day in a number OF dif-
ferent places just in the rear OF the
lines. the occupants. however. being
In French uniforms and not al all
answering the physical description OF
the British officers who started out
with the car.
There can be no doubt that the orig
inal occupants were disposed OF and
that some Germans dressed in French
uniforms proceeded to use the car.
Story OF a German Spy.
There was British evacuation hos
pltal at b which. of course. was
just on the edge OF the battlefield and
where during the lighting hundreds or
wounded from a considerable part OF
the line were received each day.
During the heavy lighting in Octo-
Der one day a man In the uniform OF
sergeant OF the royal army medical
corps reported to the hospital ana
said that he had belonged 10 a GER
tain number OF field ambulance ana
had become separated from IL. so was
reporting to the hospital for duty. lie
spoke English perfectly and his uni
form was correct.
There was nothing i'm any way sus-
picious about him or his arrival, as
in heavy lighting men frequently be
come separated from their units ana
IL is their duty to report to the near
est similar unit
| His eagerness to question all
wounded and his fluent German when
he spoke to German wounded prison
ers excited suspicion. Investigations
showed that he did not belong to the
( r. a. NJ. c. nor TO the British army
AS the result of a court martial ne
was shot as a spy.
Cut Wires to Trenches
a thing frequently done by these
people operating in the rear OF the
lines Is 20 cut the telephone and tele-
graph wires leading from dlffernt
headquarters 10 the trenches and
/ from artillery observing officers TO
thei rbatteries.
In NJ the French caught a wo-
man tapping their wireless messages
sent out from headquarters.
/ An English infantry officer SAID
that never yet had the Germans made
a night attack on the trenches in
which he was that a house or hay
stack or something else infiammabls
/ just in the rear of their trenches did
not blaze up. In this way they were
always silhouetted by II against the
flames. so that he Germans could see
them easily, while the Germans would
| be I'm the dark
The men OF battery caught a wo-
man signaling with a lamp from a
hole in the roof OF a house the result
d OF the fire OF German battery They
were led to this discovery by the fact
that although their battery had Just
changed TO a new position, the Ger
man fire followed It and was almost
q Immediately effective in that IL killed
iseveral men.
The men and officers OF another
battery had frequently noticed an old
woman with a dog who often passed
near the battery. one day one OF the
officers became suspicious and fol-
lowed her at a distance. He saw ner,
when safely behind hedge where
she was out OF sight OF the battery.
release the dog from it, leash. Tne
dog Immediately ran as fast as IL
could and as straight as It could for
the German lines.
German System Works Well
Several infantry soldiers going
along a road on the battlefield want
I ed some water. They yelled TO what
was apparently an old woman on
clutches and started for her She i'm
mediately dropped her crutches. gath
cred up her skirts. displaying very
masculine pair OF legs and bounded OF
a. fast as she could go into a neigh
boring wood.
That the German information sys-
tenn works well has been shown again
and again by the way In which their
batteries promptly find with their IRE
I the allies batteries which had
changed position during the night.
The town OF l.. which is within
artillery range Of the Germans. was
visited one day by an army corps