Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-04
English Spy System

NEW YORK, March :.--Thc Eng
iiSh information service. Which was
practically or 10 assistance at the be
ginning OF Tho war, is nov much bet
ter ;htn tn" German according to Il
man whose own sources OF informs
ton arc unusual. ana Who has Just go,
back from England
When the war broke out he said
'th" GERMAN .ystcm Of espionage was
- hes since hecomo known the most
compute ia The World, and for many
months II waH til" terror Of the corr.
man|erS OF thr allies Iianv IAN attack
IN france failed because ihc Germans
seemed % know just from which source
I earn" and ct Just Whit point 70 ,vould
u" directed Time after ihuc a ncM
disposiiion of force, had hardly hcon
mad" when German shelly would begin
10 ana the headquarters and cause =,
hastN ab1nAounent or tho spc, ~
r:riiin what MAS done in LONDON Of
IN '3ris seemed to be kuoSn always
!onE before III" news had found its
way outside 70! a small English o.
trench official cot-ri".
1T was tho sNnc WAY with some of
the naval movements. The German in
formation servic. on the coast OF south
America Fha able To keen ADMIRAL won
Spec Informed or cvcry. move made bv
The squadron that the Scharnhorst and
her cu'upanion ships later destroyed
The British information service had
30 hr Dract!rHll" rcorganizcd in every
particular ana tho work Of rcorcaniZa-
ton has been 80 corinletc tina, the Ger
man SPY system does no, cunparc with
81 happen To know. for instance. that
the British admiralty knew an advance
Of the proposed raid OH scarborough
and not onl" that II knew tho name OF
every German ship in the expedition
l'laus were made 10 meet II. and had II
q of n.
forces that nr$i iicct would have beev
Gu, OFT from it's base
N"Two divisions OF tho EritiEh North
sea fleet started out to meet the in
Nadcrs. one started from n base north
of Scarborough. and Tic other from n
base some miles south of it. They laid
their course for spot In Tho North Sea
at which 81 junction would have meant
the surrounding OF the German squad
ron.
The German vessels either not
knowing or unhceding the trap that
was being prepared for them. steamed
straight across toward the British
coast. After they had passed the SHOT
where the two British divisions were
70 join, Il heavy fog set in. and this
became so thick it proved impossible
FOR the British plans to be carried out
So that when the Germans started back
after having delivered their attack, the
junction could not be affected and their
ships got out OF the danger zone, the
only british vessel getting a shot al
them being destroyer that managed
TO hit one in the stern with n torpedo
inhicting damage to the extent OF
which has not become known
Then when tho Bluecher and her
companion ships started out on the sec
Ond raid, the admiralty had full in
formation as before. This time the ele-
ments did not fight for Germany, and
as everybody knows, Admiral Sir David
! Beatty was able to deliver 4 crushing
blow.
The allies have had to take several
leaves out of the German book since
the war began And YOU will And, be-
fore the war is over. that there is many
4 thing that the Germans spent years
in perlectinG. rs they thought, which
the allies, after Studying, have been
able to improve upon"