Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12

strange thing, but the underwear
form actually bore the label Of a Mu-
mich manufacturer and dealer.
Observes Flashing Light.
The second case was a little farther
down the scale. One night a battalion
relief was to be made on the Toul front.
and the relieving battalion had Just
left its rest billet in village few
miles from the front line to go. for
ticed a light MASKING intermittently
from the schoolhouse window.
He started to investigate. supposing
some careless person was moving about
the room with a candle without screen
ing the window. when from far up
ahead. where he knew Montsec arose in
the darkness came what seemed an
answering flash. The battalion was
called back and the relief postponed.
A half hour later ten German bat
teries fired for twenty minutes upon a
road fork that the battalion would have
reached just at that time. The civilian
population Of that town was smaller by
just one the next day.
Another spy case Of still lesser i'm
portance-in fact, 1t might rather be
called dirty trick"-was that of a
that held trenches on a famous sector
Of the western line for a time. His
mules kept dying, apparently Of NAL
n 1sn despite the fact that the
him burying something behind the old
stone barn that served him as stable.
1t was the days forage: he was simply
starving the mules to death: The man
was German, doing his mite for the
kaiser.
Propaganda Agents Active.
Then. aside from the spy work. which
aims to get military information or do
material damage to the American Army,
there Is the intangible propaganda. which
men and weaken their resolution to fight
For instance. just after one division went
into the trenches tales were going about
that tho Germans over there sent word
they have no quarrel with the Americans
and don't want to fight US. so we oughtn't
to fight them"
In another sector two nondescript indi-
viduals were caught spreading tales that
austria had suddenly made a separate
peace with the allies. and Germany was
left alone to fight them all. SO England.
France and Italy didn't really need Amer
fight. ~
OF course, both are ridiculous yarns. but
their aim was to confuse the men and
make them think and talk about peace.
Ihey were timed, Of course, to coincide.
more or less. with peace speeches from
various exalted places
In order to round out the subiect inst
one more story should be told It will
Illustrate as we'll as anything the fact that
II tnere are spy hunts, so also are there
Mares, nests; The Irish chaplain Of an
artillery regiment-he is well known in
the Army-believes in living we'll. Also
when he has a respite from saving souls
ne tries his hand at spy hunting.
: Decides to Ambush sienaler.
It was reported to him that lights
nad been seen flashing at night from
w vne s.e ep 10 Of church in the town
INES and 1t was pointed out to him
that. though the Germans shelled the
town daily. no shell ever hit the church.
a inf psd re. determined that he would
.I 6ut Just before sallying forth that
stomach makes a man happy.
~. ~ nc said to his striker. II see
morrow" '
Then the padre buckled on his am
ladder into the church tower, squeezed
his liberal proportions into a dark cor
ner and waited. The clock in the old
tower had been long hors du combat,
that it was after 10 o'clock and his
limbs told him that he had been wait
ing come hours when he heard eau
t1ous steps on the ladder.
The padre grfpped his pistol az the
trap door swung open and q dim figure
climbed through. For a moment it
didn't move. then came a sudden beam
Of light: undoubtedly he was signal
ing the Germans. The padre sprang
upon him.
MY Gawd" said familiar figure.
jerry said the padre. Two fright.
ened pigeons new out Of the window.
II was lookin' for the pigeon Dot
pie" said Jerry.