The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-08-01

! | insignificant littie herman Heutr
ant tried 10 gain the good graces
his government by going TO Engla
for his vacation and reporting his o
seryations In our peaceful and peac
loving country"
France suffered greatly also fro
the spider-like network OF Germ'
espionage. In 1905 q promine
French general said:
German spies are everywhere
France, as before 1870. they are r.
sorting to every device OF spyin
They are spying through our demo
cratic help. through the street boy
even though the chimneysweeps.
1t was established that about fol
~ thousand Germans were workiu
ln Paris as walters and other hel0
restaurants and hotels at one tim
and since the outbreak OF the Wa
France convinced herself how far
reaching and how poisonous the kais
er's spy system really is.
Hid Spies In Wells.
In the district OF Rheims the Frenc
discovered a nest OF German espion
age in the wells where the German
had prepared telephone and platform
Information TO their government.
General French pointed out tina
numerous German spies were ming
ng among the British troops an
transmitting TO the German govern
n ent information about the movemen
ci the British troops al night b.
means OF colored lights and in III
day time by means of smoke fror
tie chimneys OF peaceful looking lit
tie houses.
Since the Allies adopted rigorou
measure to crush the German sp.
system the German Government re
serted 10 the aid OF neutrals TO carr
or the work OF German espionage
Sweden. Denmark and Norway, Hol
land and Switzerland have become th
centres of German espionage Tn
German Ambassadors and the finan
clal agents are practically directiDi
the activities and enterprises OF IN
sp.es. They are controlling news
papers and editors. press bureau
end motion picture houses for German
propaganda and German espionage
They are financing pacifist pub.ica
tons and radical organizations Z
srread unrest and revolution IN th
countries OF the Allies and TO obtai
through the paeifists and radicals
tie Allied countries information
about the conditions in these coun
tries
Spies Still in America.
Last October, at secret meetinl
Of prominent German statesmen an'
economists the chairman OF the or
ganization boasted that German cour
lors were going through to Americ
and to France regularly, notwith
standing the enormous obstacles
placed in their way by the Allies
/ The Germans declared that thei
courlers were delivering the message
I they were entrusted with and sue
ceeded In doing their confidentia
work
In their zeal to engage the services
OF important people In neutral coun-
tries. the German agents have oeea
s.onally blundered. Thus. in HOLLAND
they endeayored to enlist the seryice'
CT Pastor Lien. prominent theolo
g.cal professor OF the Hague uniyer
sity and member Of the League TO
the Defense o. Holland Against Ger
man Influence In Switzerland the'
turned TO Dr. Schermer, distin-
guished physician OF Lauzanne. ask
ing him to go TO France for the pur
pose OF gathering information abou
a Frenchman by birth made public the
German offer in the local newspapers
In Russia various methods were en-
rloyed by the German agents TO sc
Russians for German espionage
Bold Enough 10 Advertise.
Thus about two years before tn
war some OF the Russian newspaper
published the following advertise
ment:
5000 RUBLEs INCOME A YEAR
whatever. officers. retired fu1c;
ionaries. all those who have acces
10 the highest society. can ear
this sum as representatives of
foreign art firm. Send qual.sica
tions with brief biography and ref
erences
The address was given. An inyes
, tigation by the Russian author:iie
, disclosed that the advertisement ha
been inserted by representatives G
, the German government. but the agt ]
, harmed that the Russian Governmeu
vas investigating him and he dissr
|. peared in time