The evening world., 1917-07-07
NORTHCL|FFES SAYS
SPIES, NOT PAPERS,
GIVE KAISER NEWS
Apparently Innocent Gables
Betray Serious Military Facts
to the Germans.

WASHINGTON, July T,-I,ord North
olifto. head Of the British missions in
this country, has authorised pufqioa-
tlon OF parts Of confidential speech
on spies and censorship made 20 the
: National Press Club July 4. He de-
scrIbed the work OF spies in England
and the mood OF fatal information that
pours over the cables through neutral
countries to Germany. and apoke OF
tho dangers Of any except technical
military and naval censorship OF the
press. Only twice In the last month,
he said. had he seen anything pub
lished in American newspapers that
might have been Of value TO the
enemy
In his address he said:
What docs not yet seem TO be
understood hero, and what we did
not understand at the beginning Of
the war, Is that the really deadly high
explosive news IL not Newspaper
news but the news sent out by spies
IN code TO neutral countries for
transmission 10 Germany.
Admitted mat the task Of exam
ining hundreds Of thousands Of cables
a day IL dinlcult and costly. Admitted
that keen brains are required in
large numbers for the task. Tho
brains are here In abundance and the
outgoing cables can easily be CO.
ordinated 90 that all cables addressed
to the same names abroad and even
TO the Same towns abroad come under
the eyes of the same osnsors week
after week. II 10 by means Of check
Ing back cables addressed from Eng
land 20 neutral countries that we
have caught many Of our spies.
1T is not dificuit for spies 10 get
news. Their task 10 the delivery Of
the noods, and 70 that task they con.
eentrats.
THE cable censor must be remorBe-
less II he finds constant domestic tele-
grams going to one particular place.
At the risk OF disturbing happy homes,
he must hold up or destroy the cables.
A world OF meaning can be concealed
behind the words Mother better or
Mother going to seashore.'
I'VE In England were loatA TO be-
lieve in tho existence OF an extensive
German spy system IN our midst un-
I'll strange happenings by land and
sea proved that their spy prepara-
tions. firmly established In England
years before tho war. were just az
efficient as all their other prepar-
ations.
The German spies are divided into
Ave or six classes. working independ-
emily OF each other.
There is the business spy, whose
work Is the gathering OF information.
personal and otherwise. An estab-
llshment called Schimmelpfennigs
opened out In England, purporting to
be something like your Bradstreets
: or Dun's, but really with the object
I OF ascertaining tho capacity for maxi
ing guns, munitions and what not OF
every 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
ganiEed by the German Consuls In
0 Great Britain, who collected informa-
. ton by means Of hotel walters, bar
n bers, governesses and domestic SER
, wants, to whom they paid compare
: lively small sums monthly.
I'm naval and military towns tho
: German Government provided Ger
!. mans with capital with which to open
a and purchase hotels. All this was
done through the consuls.
Then there was a series OF spies
d organized by the famous department,
. which had its headquarters In Brus-
1. sells. These were spies who moved
q about In good social circle as a ruls,
picking up any Information they
n could get When II came to picking
= up Information as to British psychol-
y ogy. they got II all wrong, for IL has
g been notorious that, almost without
: exception, they reported to Berlin tnat
e Great Britain would not go to war,
II Members OF this class OF spy were
N entirely unknown TO each other and
/. only known TO headquarters by num-
70 bers. They were paid "A minimum Of
a 5000 and a maximum Of $4,000 a
n year, and were usually engaged IN
= ome other. kind OF work-very often
/, insurance work. Out OF respect for
their sex, among the spies we have
shot at the Tower OF London, the
10 women have been exempted and sen.
= TO long terms OF imprisonment.
~ Further, there were the military
!. ana naval spies. TINS KIND or spying
- Is regarded as legitimate among all
u nations. Carl Lody. whom saw tried
by court martial and who had an
"a American passport and spoke Amer
T. lean with the slightest German ac-
- cent, was legitimate naval spy and
- was so regarded by our authorities
/ who treated him as well as he could
be treated In the circumstances and,
~ hnolly, very properly shot him, lie
VI was captured owing 20 Clums ness on
his part. Among other foolishnesses,
le he Kept his code In his pocket and
1r therefore knew at the moment he was
" arrested that he was "A dead man,
~ one OF the things that led TO his de-
: lection was the cable censorship.
70 We had been warned for years
' that the country was full OF German
spies, but did not believe II.
Compared with the leakage OF
news into newspapers tho daily leak
age OF secrets by cable IL as Mag
\ ara compared with mountain