Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-17
spy PROBLEM Big
y. ATCAMP MEADE
Ripid Censorship Imposed
on correspondents to Keep
inflammation From Enemy
AN EXPERIMENT STATION
,,.,,,est Ideas in Modern Warfare
TO Be Tried Out at Little
Vi Penn
,,p MEADE. Admiral, Md, Sept. H..


rnc problem that overshadows all others
.so work. of training the $4,000 draitees
~. ,eventy-ninth army division and the
-, u IL vet TO DC solved completely con-
ome ,s the German spy system
Tnat this problem, and II Is admi.teo oy
',,,a ofJlcers TO be a serious one, Is caus-
ianA,e ,or General Joseph Il. Kuhn, COM
ing s ~ this division, considerable appre-
r,a, ,s we'll known. General Kuhn has
. hssitated TO admit his concern ABOUT II.
w, os several times during the last two
ars sne has admitted that the German spy
svstem is too serious to pc cohsidered
lightly. A.. ,uon,s NJ tho cern,an
n-.srrment are watching every move made
w ,ns war Department. and that. operating
=. =. wo shington and Baltimore. they are
n.,rared 10 take advantage of every facility
,hot Is offered TO gain information in regard
10 the work at Camp Meade.
This work which will he of more mill
49,, consequence at Little Penn than at
Wv other cantonment in the country. must
Sc Guarded very zealously. This is the
sh,ef reason for the censorship imposed
unon the newspaper correspondents and the
,,vid rules which will govern the activities
Of the troops
EXPERIMENT STATION
without detracting from the Importance
AZ other training camps, it can be stated
that Camp Meade will serve in the double
capacity of a training camp for the ma
tjonal army and also as an experiment
station for the latest Wrinkles III war
fare.
Its nearness to Washington enables
Secretary Baker Of the War Department
and his army chiefs to make frequent
visits For this reason according to one
Of the army chiefs, Camp Meade has been
l. -. g.
trying out of new methods in trench war
fare, artillery nre ana engineering prop
lens
French officers and American officers
who have been behind the firing lines in
France are to be here and direct this
work, and under a plan that was formu-
lated recently in Washington, the pick OF
American officers will be stationed here as
observers and Convey the knowledge they
acquire to other camps.
To effect such a plan, II is necessary to
impose u rigid censorship or, as General
Kuhn puts II, to prevent any information
of a military character from reaching
the enemy.
How, the military secrets are to be bottled
up Is the problem that is still unsolved,
although General Kuhn believes that he
has made much headway in this direction.
II is certain that little training OF the in-
tensive order will be conducted during the
stay Of the civilian workers, and as several
thousand will remain in camp for another
month"; it is admitted that until they leave
the reservation, the training given TO the
,draftees will be limited to fundamentals.
DRAFTEES DUE SOON
The new soldiers will begin TO arrive on
Wednesday but not until the 18th of Octo-
ber will the entire quota be here. The
draftees despite their patriotism. will not
be free from surveillance until they have
proved their ability to withhold information
Of the camp The system which has been
devised by the War Department TO detect
: suspicious persons caunot be detailed now,
but 1t can be said that sllchFa system has
been established and also that it has worked
efficiently during the building of the can
tonment
1t has been used TO check up on whisky
peddlers and gamblers, but its chief pur-
pose is to detect men who obtained work
on the cantonment in order to acquire In.
formation. Several men of this type have
been weeded out in this manner and SC
quickly and quietly that they never learned
4 how the job was done.
This system has been SO effective that
General Kuhn is confident that it can bt
continued after the actual work of training
begins and he has made plans to widen its
scope.
Secretary Baker and General Tasker II
Bliss. assistant chief of staff, share thi.
opinion. Both officials paid visit to tn,
: camp yesterday and held a lengthy confer
ence with General Kuhn. The latter dur
ing the conference expressed the wish tina
tne opening of the camp could be postponed
until the construction work is finished bu
uid not insist upon Il postponement