Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-04-20
Valiant Little Band OF Patriots
About Whose Achievements
Little Is Known.
MEANS HEROiSM UNNEQU.TED
Government Agents Live Lives That
for Adventure and Daring Deeds
Make BEST Seller" Look Like
furnished Imitation.

New YOrk-COncident with the
discovery of the Zimmerman note,
which disclosed the far-reachinS plans
of Germany to foment trouble in every
part of the globe, and the subsequent
refusal of Secretary of State Lansing
to disclose how the note was obtained,
because it would "endanger lives,
comes brief press dispatch from
Juarez. Mex, announcing the theft OF
important papers" from the German
consulate there.
To the average reader the Juarez
dispatch may seem unimportant, YET
in all probability it is merely another
link forged in the great chain OF I'M
known achievements of our valiant lit
tie band of patriots who throughout
the entire world are always on the
alert in the interest of our country.
vet who in time of danger cannot call
on us for aid.
This lutte, band of men, who are
| known only to the state department,
and whose names appear in the Sc
cret archives of the United States as
AL" or "C-2175," live lives that for
adventure and herOism make the av-
erage "best seller" hero look like
furnished imitation.
So little Is known by the general
public of the secret agents of our gov
eminent that to the average person
it seems probable no such body of men
exists. AS q matter of fact, the vast
majority of the citizens of the country
seem to think the secret service, which
i'm reality is attached to the treasury
department, is entrusted with diplO-
matte work of the underground or
der. This, however, is not the case
Although it is the duty of the secret
service and department of justice op-
eratives to run down plots of different
kinds that are brewing almost continu-
ally within the confines of our own Dor
ders, they seldom are sent out of the
country.
Busy in All Lands.
In far off Russia, in China, Japan
Germany, France. England. South
America, and, in fact, every inhabited
part of the globe, there fits the dip
lOmatic phantom, the secret agent
How many times he has intercepted
Just such documents as the thinner
mann note will probably never b.
known outside of diplomatic circles
but this particular feat is a good ex
ample of the work done by thes'
"watchdogs Of the mist" Using tiC
titious names and numbers, l will out
line their work.
When the war broke out in Europe
broke with all the suddenness of
: furious thunderstorm, it was no SUI
prise to those engaged in the grea
, game of lodging DEATH" In Berli
, a dapper youth of decided TeutOni
, appearance. listed under our own bar
: ner as "B-45," was fully alive to wha
7 was doing.
, On the Russian border Ivan Mus
, cOvitz, whose reports were signed wit
another number and letter, straight
I way informed Washington of the Ru:
}. sian preparations. while in France an
J. | EnElanu AnuTe LIE hcuc ullu w
rockingham. respectively, repOrte
the doings of these two great nations
The youth of TeutOnic appearance
Y Is killed by a taxicab. Plainly an a.
: cident. you would say if you had wi
l. messed the incident, vet the taxica
y had followed the Teutonic youth man
d blocks and was in all probability dri'
s en- by q decrepit old chauffeur. VIII
t. Is known to Wilhelmstrasse as N-99l
d 6S1, and who had received nOtificatiO
IS of the Teutonic youths activity in IL
I. vicinity of some district of military IN
portance.
So died the TeutOnic youth. On Il
s. register at Washington "B-45'
lr crossed off as dead and "B N rush'
e from Dresden to take his place. III
q, TeutOnic youth is an American, boz
'e and raised. fighting to protect his cou
D. try, but, even knowing that his Ii
is in continual danger, he can mai