French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-03-08
MILLIONS SPENT BIZ WAR
POWERS FOR SPIES IN U. S
AbaElng Revelations OF Ferelgn Spy
Activities Are Promised If This
Country Goes to War.
(By J. Herbert Duckworth.)

(By J. Herbert Duckworth.)
New York, Feb. 24.-Amazing reve-
lations of foreign spy activities are
promised if this country goes to war.
Espionage in the United States is
costing the European belligerents ten
million dollars a week. or $52O,0OO,OOO
a year!
There is reason to believe Senator
Overman was not oEer-estImating
when he said there are@1Q0, 900 spies in
the United States. These men cost
their masters, in salaries and expen-
ses all of $1O0 a week apiece.
If experience of European countries
is any indication, these spies will be
found planted in every conceivable
and many an inconceivable place
throughout the land.
They are working in munitions fac
tories, arsenals Int dockyards, n the
big financial houses through which the
orders are given in the offices of ship
ping companies and in the customs
service.
Spies working against the Allies,
particularly, are in the cotton ex-
change, where their job is to put in big
orders and boost. prices when other
agents have ascertained that "the
enemy" is about to make purchases.
There are spies in the war depart
ment and the navy department, and in
the army and navy.
These particular spies were special
" educated for this kind of work.
They are steered by some mysteri-
Gus hand to their respective posts. and
watched for several years to test their
loyalty" before they were made pieces
of their country's espionage system.
The telephone, telegraph and cable
system of the country are literally
: honeycombed with spies!
. Thousands of spies are working II
hotels, restaurants and other shops
patronlzed by 1nanciers. Statesmen
and naval and military men, wher'
they eavesdrop and send their reports
: daily to the next man higher up
These smaller fry do not Know TO
t what particular person they are work
ing for H"ttheir country"
o So feverishly have the spies beef
working since the outbreak of the wa
they now have exact knowledge OF tn
q naval, military, economic, and hnan
call resources of the country.
d This espionage game las its com1ca
/; side. A spy cannot be implicitly trust
d ed by his own Government. The re
It suit is that spies are set to watch spies
d Men high IT in the business, men &C
o Guainted with important secrets, ar
followed to the theater, restaurant
e 21t cafes.
y There is a special branch of he sci
u vice made up of smartly dressed an
n attractive looking women who frequeI
re the Great White Way and fashionabl
d hotels and rathskelIers, whose duty
to become acquainted with the big fe
l. lows and to see whether under a W
'e mans spell and that of champagne an
y music, they may be trusted to kee
y their secrets.
n Uncle Sam is credited with possess
" ing the best secret service in tn
&c world. It is small but highly efhc1en
Its members are mostly college me
who, when they join the service. "el
list" for seven years..
They pledge themselves neither
|; marry nor to have any communicate
= with their old friends or relatives du
ing theperiod of their service. AS tn
are obliged TO change their names fr
uuentIy in order to do their work, tn
Z. are known to their department chic
% by numbers.