The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-07-07
SPIES. mot PAPERS, ARE MEANS
EMPLOYED BY GERMANS GETTING
NEWS OF MILITARY FROM U. S.

five or six classes, working independ-
emily of each other.
There is the business spy, whose
work is the gath erfng of INFORMATION,
personal and otherwise. An estajb-
lishment called SchimneIpfennigs
opened out in England purporting to
be something like your Bradstreets or
Dun's,. but really with the object Of
ascertaining the capacity for making
guns, munitions and what not of every
plant in England, together with any
other information that might be USE
full to Germany when she went to
war.
"a second form of spying was or
Great Britain, who collected informa-
ton by means of hotel walters, bar
bers. governesses and domestic ser
wants, to, whom they paid compare
lively small sums monthly.
I'm naval and military towns the
German government provided Ger
mans with capital with which to open
and purchase hotels. All this was
done through the consuls.
Then there was a series OF spies
organized by the famous department
which had it's headquarters in Brus-
sells. These were spies who moved
about in good social circle as a rule,
picking up any information they could
get. When it came to picking up in
formation as to British psychology,
notorious that, almost without excep
tiorl, they reported to Berlin that
Great Britain would not go to war.
Members of this class of spy were
entirely unknown to each other and
only known to headquarters by men,
bers. They were paid minimum of
SO, 900 and a maximum of $4,000 a
year, and were usually engaged in
some other kind of worlr-very often
insurance work. Out of respect for
their sex, among the spies we have
shot at the Tower of London, the wo-
men have been exempted and sent to
long terms of Imprisonment.
Further, there were the military
and naval spies. This kind of spying
is regarded as legitimate among all
nations. Carl Lody, whom saw tried
by court martial and who had an
American passport and spoke Amer
lean with the slightest German ac-
cent, was legitimate naval spy and
who so regarded by our authorities,
who treated him as well as he could
be treated in the circumstances and,
finally, very properly shot him. He
was captured owing to clumsiness on
his part. Among other foolishness,
he kept his code in his pocket and
therefore knew at the momnt he was
arrested that he was a dead man.
J One of the things that led to his de-
| lection was the cable censorship.
1--WE had been warned for years
that the country was full of German
| SPIES but did not believe it. Ger
mans were admitted to our clubs, went
about among us and seemed very
friendly. At the outbreak of the war
we found that we had been entertain
ing several battalion of spies. I re-
member the sight that went on day
after day in. London just before the
! outbreak of the war when they
swarmed to the German Consulate to
get their passports vised. Any OF
them obviously had information that
a war was coming and that they
might have difficulty in getting out.
Large organizations, such as insur-
ance companies, electrical concerns
and pianoforte makers who required
| large numbers of men to go about
tuning pianos, were in effect central
depots for gathering information fol-
the German government.
'SThe Observation-Disclosures STEAMSHIP
Company also had its own series OF
spies and had to do with the subven-
lions of Germanized papers in Lon
don and of certain notorious English