The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-07
SPIES IN HOLLAND.
Little Neutral Country Swarms With
German Agents of Both sexes.

Pearson's Weakly: Needless to say,
Holland which is the only little bit
of neutral land between Germany and
England. is swarming with Hun spies
and agents. and the ways in which they
try to find out things from anybody
whom they think might know useful
facts are marvellous
OF course. the Germans make great
use of spying women. They are at
tractive girls, and most of them speak
Flemish and French.
These girls are from time totime sent
to live at hotels where possibly useful
victims" are living. In this way and
without any suggestion OF forcing their
company on other residents, they can
easily scrape acquaintance with any
one who. from their point of view is
worth IT,
Naturally visitors from France or
England are regarded as big game"
And there are many such visitors They
are in these times chiefly business men,
commercial travellers "a few officials,
and not a few journalists both male anc
female.
From time 60 time there are waves of
strenuous activity ON the part of these
women. and their male accomplices. In
most OF the cities of Holland there are
cafes where dancing and music are
carried ON every evening. Here the
dancing girl awaits her victims.
Lie is fairly free and easy i'm these
places, and in tine course Of an evening
il is possible FOR any of these female
spies to find out who is present
: The correspondents Of English news
papers are particularly pestered bl
these harpiee To be- shadowed hourly
/ is the lot OF us all Those responsibl,
for this espionage appear TO think tina
! every Englishman ion Holland wheJhe
/ De calls himself business man or jour
nalist. is really engaged I'm spying TO
his country. In amy case they act ol
this supposition. and follow us. az wha
must be- fabulous expense o. taXicab
and railway fares.
ln Holland ao man has a wight 10 70
low another and ne who is followed ha
| She law ON his side il he turns upo
! his follower and gives him a left am
, light OF course, in the case of wome
this is am impossible means of retali'
. tion. and they are safe.
! But with the men it is different. an
here the cunning of the Hun is show
) IIe never sets decent sized man
5 follow another ] have never seen
5 man engaged ia this work whom
. could hit with any selt-respect.
Nevertheless there is a very eftIciei
. service OF espionagle which keeps Ge
I man headquarters well informed
r things both great and small The fD
lowing story. which is perfectly true
p every detail shows how difficult il
ID for any incident To take place withot
a the Germans knowirg about il.
% Is Dutch business man. sitting wit
'- some friends outside cafe took fro
q his pocket a penny imitation iron GRO
and tied il around the neck of a do
belonging 20 one OF the company. TIL
man went 20 Germany six weeks aft
this incident
z An went well Tin he was over q
Dutch frontier. After signing his man
n at "a hotel where Dee made his fir
H. stop. be was summoned before sor
rs military official. and the incident
r- the dog and the iron cross was reiat
IF TO him in accurate detail Then
,l- folty-eight hours he was detained
ir custody while thc authorities pretend
Do 20 make further Inquiries about Doll
10. This was merely an excuse to give h
DE- taste Dt German discipline