The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-28
Hard School of Training for Men
Engaged in Work. Women and
Walters Not Important

ma be that there is NJ lprro, n,
head of the ecret ser,.c r o-pon,n
ton such a genius ~ S.epcr
could make his small creatures acc,r
piish large designs. Stcber Zc-,,t-
one may chouse OFT half y do,.,
or so Of names, just az In c-'r.n,
recor@ one may choose out the names
of Peace and Crippen, or even u the
Borgfas, as capable Of grea, thing. ~
crime. BUT the sp.eS M l..cr da,,
the German secret service hav. 40,
been put to great uses. or the ,emns-
of the British people would not n,s
b~en misunderstood to the extent ,ha,
led to Ireland being looked on as -.
revolving province" or The colonies ~
Britain as only waiting for a cbenc.
to escape from British rule. Tho r-n.
cral work Of the spy seems 70 hav. A
generuted along with the nation TIN,
founded the system DOWN tn pettv
ends and fn~conseuuent results W,
have ven. In this present war. rhai
the occupation OF Brussels WAS carmel
thruuph without a hfr,h owdng tn 80
machinelike perfection Of the Or
mxn spy systern-there WAS cause FOR
congratulation. from "A German POM
OF view. But We have seen none nj
the great Coups thar made the cam.
paign Of 1870 a rrcat a triumph for
Staeb~r a. for Bismarck and his royal
master.
The ant-cspionaEe system of Birth
secret service Is worthy OF n
connection with Tn decline Of tn
German syreuxn Of espionage In CHS
connection the SCOTSMAN rcport OF tho
trial OF Graves bears quotation. nore
especially me deposition of Ir-p~-tu
Trench. who dcs,crihpd the er,ts
found on Graves at the rin~ Of hs
arr~@
"The prisoner. on being arrested IT
his hotel. had IN his poasrsssion a doo-
tors book. apparently empty. THIS
Wa found on inspection. TO contain
leaves stuck toeethcr. In mo
nAdd3e were sentences and fgur@-a
code which had been subsequently n
ctphcred by a process OF subtraction
from the A p c code.
He Also had ca-rids>
cases Of the latest army pattern Tho
code notes contained phrases ks
.,L.-r- r-cp.., .h,yo ,ou.,sJ -
40. .la ,a ,or-i6o-to,. AN
mann~d. A."
Further, Graves had kved IN Efn-
burHh n "a medical student taking
hts hst degree IN scFrce." hut hadno
u"n nesI Any ho'p ~ -
me pAP" ~" "Ve'ops w"
known Enensh nrn LOT ms c"rTrp"n.
oence IN oroe1 10 a'o'o NsSc"on ="
In" "S W ~
mo sH1euneh IN court OF L@'us "hS
the<e points nor 80 much 70 the Gun
ming of tho man Graves u TO mo
a in winch. from the tme " ~"
taking up rssn'Ssnce IN Ehnourfh As
"a medical student" he mus: have
been shadowe3 and keTN undcs o's'r-
vatnon The dec1pherfng OF the c"e
rbe certarrNy as TO paper ana en-
velopes used, and othfH thnH-S tr''
came cut IT III trial are small l"ns
in themselves: but they go to Sho"
that " M German we're scrfl1r
were relatively as soot - ~
IN tho days when Stfcher ussT
hts intelligence TO keep me SEs
tenn ahead q AL others GrAV1
would never have come 20 Is
British tail, for in n first plaH" the
German secret service would not nave
employed a man who already knew
too much and m the second place IS
soon as any methods were known "a
the British police they would AV~
been changed for others ever to me
Oh. which could be interpreted win
out the aid Of a key.
With regard to the quality OF troayh-
er laten, in ali spies the German
ss.cret .eryIce does It's h.<.; 20 over
cou,a this difficulty hy the retarelon
81 a ccr-a.n norton OF the pay H'''
which me spIes are credited Wien
once n man ,r woman has ,Irty -.
,eroa IN tho work of eSpipulsc = pro.
norton OF the pay is he'd hIc6 PIG 80
payt,ast.r. 81 that there = a'ways a
considerable sum owinS. It's 8 sup
nnseSI IN sct nc an incentive 70 LOYALTY
and in mosst casrs il undoubtedly ms
ina, affect. for no man likr< To- NnmrIN'
an act which will involve the frr.
fejt11re OF a sum OF money roa1v cu'
~ him. Fearing m mind the cup'df.g
Of the average spy. il VII No sen
that no deterrent " 'ul.N
cry could be devised.
In .he case OF tho military SOY M
Fronch s,-yice arords NOR. oppor
tunities for the German arert ttN
DOS the british. In .hc Brush ar
vice the officers ~ commissioner -ta.