The Madison journal., 1916-01-01
WORK
DONE BY BRITISH
SECRET SERVICE
Public Hears Little of 1t, But
Achievements Figure Large
in Archives.
CATCH MANY FOREIGN SPIES
EnoIand swarmed With Spies In Ger
man Pay-In Some Cases Iney
Were British Citizens Tor
Whose Loyalty Their
Neiahbors Vouched.

Neishbors Vouched.
London.-A correspondent Oh 'no
New York World has just had an op-
portunity of learning something Vi
what the British secret service mas
accomplished from one who' thousn
not an official. has been in the way
Of knowing something about it. One
has heard very little of the British Sc
cret service at any time, indeed there
are those who believed that IL Was
nonexistent before the war ana hau u
be improvised, like Kitchener army
From what the Worlds informant says
this seems to have been another great
delusion. 1t seems. indeed, TO nave
had one very good attribute OF secret
service-it worked without being sus-
pected of being at work.
Some time ago. when the denahu
! for the more rapid internment or re-
patriation of Germans became lhsls-
tent in parliament, committee was
created, with the widest possible po"
ers under statute, to investigate all
demands for internment or repatrla-
ton, or appeals for release by those
already interned. The proceedings Oh
this committee have, of course. been
secret. but it has, nevertheless. dealt
with many thousands Of cases-about
$4,000 probably-and it must have sat
twelve to fourteen hours a day to get
through them.
The secret service proposes. for In
stance, that certain German-or
Austrian, as the case may be-shall be
interned The individual is brought
before the committee, hears the rea
/, sons given for his internment. says
whatever he can against the propose
and the committee gives its decision
Oftentimes the interned person find:
, some new reason why he or she should
be released, and this reason is takel
. into account by the committee on ap
$ peal There is no other appeal; tn
:. committees decisions are superior Z
, the jurisdiction of all the courts of tn
:, realm. Its powers, therefore. are OF
: very extraordinary kind nothing lik
= it since the star chamber. Such ar
!, the products of war emergency.
e Army Captain Suspected.
- Needless to say. this tribunal ha
- had some extraordinary cases befoI
. 1t. For example, there was the a
peal for the confinement of BIRTHS
% army captain. with near relatives hig
II In the service, and coming of an o
~ English family. 1t is in such cas-
io that the cleverness and completene
''' of the British secret service com
in. Failure to satisfy the committ
o' in a case of that kind would spell d
- credit and increased difficulty in G,
nu ting internment orders in other cass
~ In this particular instance all Il
'A' influence that might be expected W
brought to bear to show that t
suspicion alleged against the capita
W was groundless-and not only ii
-, but preposterous. But it was sho'
y, that he had been in correspondent
with suspicious individuals in G
many, and particularly with a be-
tiful German lady with whom he v
- infatuated and who was known to
~. one of the units in the kaiser's wild
80 extended spy system. 1t was not
.. legged that he was giving away secr'
but his desperate infatuation for (
lady and the fact that he had foI
- means of corresponding with
since the war made it desirable t
noo he should be put in place of secul
-. and he was. This victim of the
ternment committees activities wa
British subject; but no matter VIII
'" subject you may be you are equ
'e amenable to it's juridiction.
och
Ieb DisoyaIty That Amazed.
lrai' There is talk here of another 81
men ing example of the thoroughness
WIN which the British secret service
hoiu been doing its work in peace I
anu A German of title, for over tw,
'ne: years naturalized. who lived in a
en-! grand way in an English county,
S 10 brought up for internment He
Illng been one of the most prominent
t to in his district in public affairs a
But BILE admirer of the Union Jack, haC
In nounced Prussian designs against
erful peace of Europe, entertained on a
,ack, ish scale. and was an exceedi
the popular as we'll as influential pc
posi-. in his locality. When the demand
the made for his internment he appt
to rs influential county friends.
been than anything else it hurt him
Titus II should be thought possible thf
could have been false 10 the En-
,o1a friends who had become so dea
" n him. They were all up in arms i
,lo,o favor, and the committee got pro
Co. from most OF the representative
rbo, sens and bodies in the county den
ing the action of the authoriti'
casting this slur on a gentlema
whose loyalty and trustwOrth
they would vouch as for their Ow
'0' had given Nnumerable evidenc
his genuine love of England, ant
ana actually taken a very active pa
disap
ID the
lit to PLUCKS DIVORCE FROM AS
sense eusnicious Wife Rescues lncrir