The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1915-03-25
GERMAN SPIES
ARE NUMEROUS
SYSTEM IS FAR REACHING AND
WORK INTO THE FIRING LINE
OF THE ENEMY
Tales of Some Caught in the Trenches
Who Meet Prompt Execution
After Discovery
BY PHIL RAIDER
copyrighted 1915, by the United
PrcSSl

copyrighted 1915, by the United
Press
LONDON, March 6.-There was a
little old woman of French national
ity whose little cottage was about a
mile from our. trenches. She had a
huge supply of cider and when one OF
US got money, and chance, we would
sneak through the trenches back to
her little house, knock on the shutter
ed window until she opened it and
handed out a big cup full of apple
juice.
MY good old husband" as she
described him, was killed in the cot
tage by German bullet We buried
the body for her and asked her why
she didn't move.
mo, no." she exclaimed. This is
my home and If l die anywhere,
die here"
One night we saw three little fickers
of light come from chink of the
shattered window. On the hill far
away in the German lines we saw a
tiny light blink three times. For
three nights we watched the sparkling
chink in the window of the widows
blind. We didn't want to believe she
was spy, because, if she was 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. I do not 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 the beetfields from the
German trenches to point far behind
our lines. 1t ended at a poplar tree
where a German spy, hidden in the
branches, had been telephoning the
enemy all the details of our move
ments.
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 a man. Our
officers took charge of him and he
appeared-executed, we heard.
In those early days of the war, when
foreigners in Paris were forming
foreign legion, Demielle, a splendid
looking, big man, with beard that
gave distinguished appearance and a
that was the essence of court
esy, got his name into the list and
was accepted. He had money In I'M
limited quantities and before he de-
parted from Paris to the front he
gave parties right and left to little
groups of comrades. His profession
was that Of an engineer Of sugar
making machine and he knew every
inch of the sugar beet country in
which our regiment was finally sta
TONED.
1t was collie dog that proved the
undoing of Demielle, fine, longhaired
animal. All the stray dogs which
made their homes in the trenches had
the most friends among the men, but
the collie liked Demielle best. We
found out afterwards that Demielle
lsed to save his food and even go
hungry himself in order to keep him
self high in the collie's good will.
How Demielle ever got the dog to
20 to the German trenches from ours
We were never able to figure out, but
We first suspected him when we saw
lin lift the dog to the edge of our
rench and send him on his way by
throwing a stone towards the German
ines which were only one hundred
md fifty feet distant ;