The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-07-13
Danger 10 U. S.
OF Spies Now
Operating

Washington. July 13-Lord North
cliffe. head of the British missions in
this country, today authorized publ
cation of part of confidentlal
speech on spies and censorship MADE
to the National Press club July 4.
The address in part follows:
What does not yet seem to be un-
derstood here, and what we did not
understand at the beginning OF the
war is that the really deadly high
explosive news is not newspaper
news but the news sent out by spies
in code to neutral countries for trans
mission to Germany.
1t is not difficult for spies to get
news Their task is the delivery OF
the goods, and on that task they con-
centrate.
Watch Spanish Mail
Now that ocean travel has become
so difficult. now that the British mail
censor has perfected his methods,
the enemy spy working in your midst
is thrown back entirely on the cable
an one or two steamer routes.
81 don't know whether you have
mail censorship on letters to Spain,
but Il venture to think that if you
have not and start opening letters to
that country you will get as rich a
haul of information as our secret SER
vice department did out of the censor
of American letters to Europe.
THE German spies are divided in
to five or six classes, working indie
pendently of each other
Business Spy
There is the business spy, whose
work is the gathering of information,
personal and otherwise. An estab-
lishment called 'Schimmelpfennigs
opened up in England. purporting to
be something like your Bradstreet's
or Dun's, but really with the object of
ascertaining the capacity for making
guns, munitions and what not of ev-
cry plant in England, together with
any other information that might be
useful to Germany when she went to
war.
"A second form of spying was or
ganized by the German consuls in
England, who collected information
by means of hotel walters, BARRIERS,
governesses and domestic servants
to whom they paid comparatively
small sums monthly
"ln 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 series of spies
organized by the famous department
which had its headquarters in Brus-
SETS. These were spies who moved
about in good social circle, as a
rule. picking up any information they
could get.Members of this class of
spy were entirely unknown to each
other. and only known to headouar-
ters by numbers. They were paid a
minimum of $4,000 and maximum
Of $4,000 year, and were usually
in some other kind of work
very often insurance work very
often as travelling statesmen. Quite
number of them were women
Further, there were the military
md the naval spies.
We had been warned for wears
nat the country was full of German
pies, but did not believe it.
In Admiralty
Large organizations such as insur.
nee companies. electrical concerns
nd pianoforte makers who reouired
arge numbers of men to 90 ahou.
uning pianos, wer in effect central
epots for gathering information for
he German government. The Ham.
urg-American Steamship COMPANY
lso had its own series of spies and
ad to do with the subventions of
iermanized newspapers in London
nd of certain notorious English writ.
RS. In their hurry to clear out .,
'ngiand, the Hamburg.American
teamship company, left behind val.