Williams news., 1917-01-11

pieCe Ol HeAlDle cellulOlU or an OrQl- nary photographic film which makes an ideal telephone muffier speaking trumpet or listening cone when rolled up. Also, the confetti "patronen" or cartridges that prove so essential in trailing are frequently used. These small cartridges filled with white, pink or pale blue confetti or small pieces of paper and small piece of mirror glass form important paraphernalia to the spy that has to keep closely to his quarry for miles after miles of crowd ed streets or from trolley cars to trains and even through the mazes of busy office buildings, as the following will show.
 To the outsider these tricks of the profession may seem childish and ex- treme. Yet the Wilhelmstrasse brains of the great imperial secret service prefer those methods and they prove the most efficient after all.
 After making sure that he carries his regular equipment the spy goes to his office or rendezvous for his daily assignment, unless he has an unfinish- ed task that requires no further in- structions. Cafes or cigar stores are the best places. From waiter or at tendant or some lounging customer he receives verbal orders or information that reveals his days task Spies, be- cause of the nature of their work and their personal peculiarities, are never trusted beyond their daily task.
 For instance 0po porpipo tho elo,,&r, is to meet colleague at certain bank for the purpose of observing the doings of two foreigners that are sus- pected of being ammunition agents.
 Sleuth A follows one man. At the next street corner the man turns and his trailer also turns, and in so doing streaks the wall of the building with a peculiar purple chalk, of a color not used generally. He keeps on following his man and at every corner he marks the building so deftly and so inconspi- cuously that a bystander does not no- tice it. AS long as the object keeps walking straight ahead the trailer only marks. one side of the corner, but if the object turns he marks both sides of the corner, showing that he has turned to the right or left. If then the object should board a car, the sleuth will crush one of the white confetti car tridges with his fingers and the persis- tent little pieces of paper fall to the street and stick in the crevices between the cobblestones or the paving blocks, or even cling tenaciously to the as- nhnIf 1afr hot brooms for hours. If the object changes cars the trailer will drop pink cluster of confetti and the chalk marks will tell the story as they alight.
 When the sleuth Is relieved that eve ming he does not have to leave his ob- ject out of his sight. The sleuth that relieves him will merely take up the thread from the bank and will, as a rule, in incredibly short time locate his man in any part of the city This is much more easily done in European cities, as the streetcar systems are not so intricate and the streets are usually paved with cobblestones or bricks. The telephone is not so readily available abroad. In Berlin, for instance, there are the most pretentious homes and thousands of shops and stores without telephones.
 When the chalk mark is missing the second or relay sleuth Is convinced that his predecessor on the case or the present incumbent of the case is in the block. He walks back after making certain that he did not take car at that point, which would be revealed by the confetti on the ground. If the ob- ject and the trailer are in the block they will be soon seen or flock of confetti will show near the entrance.
 These means are not always avail