Semi-weekly herald., 1915-03-29
UNIQUE METHODS ARE
USED BY GERMAN SPIES
(By PHIL RADER.)

| iCOpyIlSnI ioioJ py OhAtco AASoSI
LONDON, March There was a
little old woman Of French national
Ii ity whose shot-riddled little cottage
was about mile behind the trenches.
She had huge supply Of cider, and
when one of us got money and a
chance we would sneak through the
trenches back to her little house,
knock on the shattered window until
she opened it and handed out big
cup full of apple juice.
MY good old husband" as she de-
scribed him, was killed in the cot
tage by a German bullet. We buried
the body for her and asked why she
didn't move.
mo! Mol" she exclaimed this is
my home and if l die anywhere l die
here"
One night we saw three little flick
ers of light come from a chink of the
suffered window. On a hill. far
away, in the German lines we saw a
tiny light blink three times. F or three
nights we watched the sparkling chink
in the window blind. We didn't want
to believe she was a spy, because,
4 she were taken away, we would
miss our cider. But. at last, we had
to act. We caught her one night in
The deed and our officers sent her
away. / don't know where. She had
sold her country for German gold.
Hers was only one instance of the
thoroughness of the German spy sys-
tenn.
One day we found telephone wire
running through the beet fields from
the German trenches to point far
behind our lines. 1t ended in popu-
lar tree, where a. German spy hid
den in the branches rad been phon-
ing the enemy all the details of our
movements. But Demielle was the
| spy of all spies. He lived with us in
our trenches, he shot at the Germans
and cursed them as we did.
But all the time he was sending
messages to them. And, when he was
caught in the act, he kept silence like
man. Our officers took charge
of him, and he disappeared-executed
we heard. In those early days oi
he war when foreigners in Paris
were forming foreign legion
Demielle, splendid looking, big man
) with beard that gave him dis
tinguished appearance and a mannel
that was the essence of courtesy, 60
his name into the list and was accept
ed. He had money in unlimited quan
titles, and before we departed from
Paris for the front he gave partieI
right and left to little groups of com
rades. His profession was that O.
an engineer of sugar making ma
chine, and he knew every inch of tn,
sugar beet country in which our regi
ment was finally stationed.
1t was collie dog that proved th'
undoing of Demellie, fine long-hair
ed animal, which of all the stray dog
, that made their homes in the trenches
: had the most friends among the men
But the collie liked Demellie best. w,
found out afterwards that Demeui'
used to save his food, and even &,
hungry himself in order to keep him
, self high in the collie's good will
: How Demielle ever trained the dos
to go to the German trenches from
ours, we were never able to figur,
out, but we first suspected Demiell,
when we saw him lift the dog to the
edge of the trench and send him OF
his way, throwing stone toward tn.
German lines, which were only ont
hundred and fifty feet distant.
| When the dog came back that night
sentry caught him and searched
him. Under his collar was a map
which Demielle had drawn with q
note written in German, Eve don't
understand this map. Can't you make
it palmer The sentry put the
note back in place and let the dog
go to Demielle's subway hut. Two
men were watching Demielle when the
dog entered. Demielie put his finger
under the dog't collar, pulled out the
note ant, began to read 1t when the
men jumped on him.
Demielle was very cool about it, but
he knew that his end had come. He
was taken away and sentenced to
death by court martial. Luckily
the firing squad was not chosen from
among the men in our trnech. The
officers paraded him before Us, ~ IN
example. He kept his head high, and