The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-10-15
SECRET SERVICE MAY SOON GET
CHIEF GERMAN AGENTS IN
UNITED STATES.
BRITAIN AND FRANCE HELP
Their intelligence Departments Have
Given Our Government Valuable In
formation on the Methods Employed
by the Teutons.


ernlnen has received from the British
and French intelligence services the
complete history of their early spy
troubles and of their methods of deal
Ing with them. There have been many
state department disclosures of Ger
man activities. but now II Is under
stood to be entirely probable that
quickly more of the most active menu
bers Of the German spy system are to
be arrested by the American secret
service.
Government investigators today are
keeping their eyes open and their
mouths shut, but they are busy with
their hands making records. The note
books Of the investigators would make
mighty interesting reading. They will
be made public probably only when the
suspects in the various cases are put
behind the bars. Great Britain's situ-
alton In the early parts OF the war was
somewhat different from that with
which the United States is confronted.
The Scotland Yard men found out that
In England II was not only the unnatu-
raiized Germans who were working In
behalf of their country. but that many
persons who had taken out British nat
uralization papers were doing the same
thing.
IL liz said that so far as the United
States Is concerned, Uncle Sans nat
uralIzed nephews OF German birth
have been found almost In the whole
part TO be of good intention toward
the country Of their adoption. or, In
other words. to be thoroughly loyal.
There are, however. In the United
States a vastly greater number of un-
naturalized persons than there were
In England. 1t Is the men who have
not foresworn allegiance to the father
lands who today are laying on the
American investigating officers the
great bulk of their troubles.
Master Spies Not Yet Caught.
Here Is an extract from an article
approved for publication by the Brit
ish intelligence service and which has
been given to the American authori-
ties:
''The people Tin England) were thor
oughly aroused by the evidence that
was forthcoming on every hand of his
Teuton octopus that had Its myriad
tentacles spread In every land. When
wal was declared the police at once
arrested a large number of aliens who
were suspected of being enemy Aliens
The officials OF the United States
government already have arrested a
good many aliens suspected of work.
Ing In ways to give aid and comfort
to the enemy Of America and further
than this to commit actual depreda-
tons on the soil OF this country. The
master spies. however, except In small
part. have not been apprehended. II
Is believed In Washington that before
long the chief offenders, the trained
spies of an enemy government, will be
In the tolls.
Some day. and that perhaps before
long, an interesting story may be made
public concerning the wireless tele-
graph plants which the United States
secret service agents have put out OK
commission since the war began. There
In little doubt that many OF these
plants were . use and were to con-
tinue In use II possible for the benefit
OF the German spy system.
Methods In England and France.
In the spring of 1915 before the war
was a year old | was In England for
some time, and In France for a some
what longer time. Some of the opera
tons of the secret service and the
results OF them were known to the
people In London and Paris who talked
about them freely. Wireless operations
had been carried on from places In
England which 1t was not supposed
ever had been visited by a German or
a German sympathizer. The very
openness Of some of the methods of the
spies was their best protection. Poe's
story of 1.-THE Purloined Letters
gives an Idea of the methods used.
The stolen letter was displayed openly
In a rack on the wall of q room, 50
OBSnty thut ~ ooaS VIM vi UNI
for a hidden letter did not take the
trouble to- look at 1t. This sort of
thing was the method Of the spies In
England and II may be their method
In this country.
In Paris | stopped In a hotel from
the roof of which some time after the
war began the Partisan officials had
removed a wireless apparatus. One of
the managers of the hotel. or n of
Its owners. I have forgotten which. was
arrested as a German spy. He had
been thought to be "all right" and
yet the wireless was on the roof of his
hotel and there It had been fol
months.
1t might not be embarrassing to say
that employees of the hotel In Paris
and others who we're familiar with the
case at the time of the arrest, said that
no one knew what had become Of the
spy. The French officers had taken
him and then all was a blank.
Among the most interesting chap.
tiers Of the history Of this wal will b.
those Of the early day operations r