The weekly Alaska citizen., 1917-12-24
JAPANESE SOLDIERS OCCUPY RUSSIAN HARB0R
SPIES ARE HANDED BUNCH
 FOR TREASON

[ IGermans, including one non-commis, stoned officer, one private and civil official. have just been executed in Germany as Entente spies. The lead Ter of the group. according to the German newspaper accounts. was a ! Doctor Roos His associates were Joseph Schnitzler. non-commisaion, ed officer in the artillery battalion at 1 the front. and Albert Strudel, q sol dier in telephone section in fob- |lentz
 | The Cologne Gazette gives the tol- flowing account Of the case:
 The enemy espionage service not Ionly succeeds in now and then send ling enemy subjects and suborned Ineutrals with false or stolen pass ports to spy in Germany, but occa- sionally German succumbs to the temptation of money.
 | A German Court-martial had to
 
 l time ago The three men named were accused Of treason. Dr RoOs, who had been a failure in his profes- sion and in life. while on a business | journey to Switzerland in 1915, made the acquaintance of q certain Joseph Kraft, in Geneva, whose business was
 po get agents for the French Intelli- gence Service. Here Dr. Roos was also introduced to an alleged Captain | Barrat.
 Tt was agreed that Roos should settle in Frankfort, and from there send military and economic informa- tion to Switzerland to q covering ad- dress Greyilliot, Geneva. The infor- ble ink between the lines of news papers which were then sent in a wrapper looking quite innocuous in the post As a reward for betraying | his country, Roos at once received an advance of 1000 francs and a monthly payment of 1000 francs was guaranteed him.
 1 Tn October. 1915, Roos began his activities in Frankfort. At first he had his own observations only to l rely upon, but later he gained accom- plices in Strude and SchnitzleT, He sent several reports monthly until finally the secret writing was dis covered and it was asCertained that he was the sender. Soon afterwards Ihis accomplices were discovered. All three made full confession.
 The activities of these three spies has done great injury to the Father land and the army. as the soldiers, lespecially Schnitzler. who was at the front, were able to give valuable information. The court-martial con demned all three to death. The pun lishment was carried out soon after.
 In addition, 1t was possible to have a number Of other members of the espionage organization brought to trial The recruiting agent, Josef Kraft, and Grevilliot, who received letters from Roos at Geneva. was
 tried by the court there. Kraft was
 fined 300 francs and sentenced to
 three months imprisonment. Gre 1 and fnt1r
 months Imprisonment for obtaining l information on behalf of foreign
 power"
 l Another account of espionage ac- tivities in Germany is printed in
 number of German papers this week It pays grudging tribute to the ac- | ivities of an alleged Russian agent named Liander. of whom it says: | This versatile and cunning spy, who 1 is generally described as man of | aducation, and of an amiable nature, |has been rendered harmless. But the espionage service of the Entente will find other ways. Only the great est watchfulness against all suspi-
 cious persons and the greatest res traint and caution in conversation can relieve Germany from these pests pr make their activity futile"
 It is stated that Lander himself lis a Swede. His two principal ac- complices were Hammer. formerly
 German subject, and Hopf, German. According to the German newspapers long periods of Imprisonment.
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