The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-31
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wien a certain naval officer dis
covered that a pretty young lady.
he was on very good terms with,
was a secret service agent IN the
employ of q hig power. The girls
inquisitiveness concerning naval
matters generally made him lit
tie suspicious and he thought 1t
wise 70 MORN his superiors. Quiet
Inquiries ELECTED the fact that she
had attempted a few days before
to bfibc a dockyard employe to-
steal certain plans for hcr.
1t has been slid, and probably
with a good deal of truth. that hid
den away IN q safe in q government
Office In Germany are fairly ac-
curate plans of Glbraltar.s defense
works, and that they were made
from rough sketches supplied by
German girl. who some years ago
alighted at Gibraltar for the .bane-
Mt of her health" After she had
been on the rock for some weeks
the officers there discovered that
she knew too much concerning
quick firing guns and other things
and in tho long run she was polite
" but firmly advised to seek an
other health resort It was
proved that she was a spy in the
employ OF Germany, and II Is pretty
certain that she dispatched par
titulars and sketchea OF Gibtai-
tar;s defense works to Berlin.
The various governments spend
thousands Of dollars every year on
their secret service. and It costs
Germany more than 100000 ev-
cry twelve months to maintain her
battalion Of spies. There is .spe-
cial! fund for paying the salaries
and expenses OF the body Of men
and women who comprise the spiea
OF Britain. and. as u rule. this
secret service costs the country
$780, 900.
The minister responsible for the
distribution OF the money takes the
following oath: II swear that the
money paid to me for Foreign
secret service. or for detecting, pro-
venting and defeating conspiracies
against the state has been bona iide
applied to said purposes and no
other
The Germans are always bitter.
'IY complaining OF the British
sketching and photographing tour
lists, and declaring that nine out OF !
ten men. who, to all appearances
are opulent and idle tourists. travel
under commissions from the Brit
isiis War Office. In this they are
well Justified, for British agents ex-
ist In France and Germany In large
numbers, and good many of them
arc.women.
There arc certainly more spies in
Germany and France than any
other countries in the world. and
scarcely a month passes but some
spy Is taken red handed ON the
Franco-German- frontier. Germany
spies on France. and France spies
on Germany, and the spy work OF
the frontier has become so ayste-
matte that at the present time It il
considered quite business, and
men are trained by both the
French and German governments !
how:to become spies and to act AZ
ouch.
There is q school for spies In
France. aud the masters are expert
hands at spyinE. II French spy
is sent into Germany he Is giyen
miniature MAPS of German FORTH
cations and the like. These he has
to learn by heart, for the French
Government wisely refuses to al
low a spy to carry such incriminat-
ing documents about him. The Spy
"a supplied with German notes ana
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