Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-22
Great Woman Spy
Tells Life Story
Author Gives Stirring REGULATIONS
OF German S Far-Reaching
Espionage System.
WRITTEN BY MISS OLGA Won
MARX.
EDITED By HENRI DE HAL
SALE.
Copyright 1917. by Henri de Hal
sale. by the international
News Bureau. Inc.

l may here refer to the French dock
yard transaction. The little brown
paper parcel, II turned out. contained
all that the German Admiralty wished
to know, but the fact considerably an
noyed KoenigergratGcrstras 20: and
particularly that smiling faced. double
dyed william, Captain Won Tappken,
who will soil his "aristocratic' hands
by active spying. but is proud TO oc-
cupy a position whence he can employ
others. perhaps moro ar's;ocratic than
himself, to do his dirty work. Captain
CAM OF Roonstrasse. does not pose as
an aristocrat-his name at once would
condemn him--and despite his military
abilities he al one time made an un-
pardonable error at mancuverS under
the very snout-1 shall he forgiven that
word--or the German Kaiser. But lie
was miitarily too clever TO lose sight
of--hence his debut and subsequent en-
gaEemcnt at % Roostrasse.
The mission / am about TO chronicle
concerns Kronstldt. Need ! say that
the very word conjures up In the mind
OF any person with military or naval
knowledge an image, real or imagi-
nary. of the strongest fortress in The
world. There is no nect-nay not the
whole fleets Of the world-could at
tack It with any degree Of success.
Seventy years ago Sir Charles Napier
declared this, and his words are as
true to-day. Peter the Great when he
built his window" through which he
could look into Europe, may not have
foreseen tho ultimate value OF the Is
land which he toon from the Swedes in
1903; but the acquisition Of the shield"
OF the Russian capital Is god send to
twentieth century Petersburg. But for
the guns of kronstadt. the German
feet might long ago have sailed
through the Gulf OF Finland into tho
Neva, and all tho Tsar's horses and
all the Tsar's men could never have
got that flee: out again.
Upon this island, about seven miles
long. Tsar Peter built the town Of
kronstadt. an act o; foresight for
which present day Russians may we'll
bless the memory of their once great
ruler, and also every day burn their
kopcck candles Inside his shrine by
the Fortress of st. Peter and St. Paul.
One day i shall tell of my adventure
in that historic prison. the final earthly
home OF so many choice spirits" OF
the empire, whose only motive AS
in one word-"frcedom Nevertheless,
do not suppose. dear reader. that like
certain section of the populace of
America. OF England. and other parts
or Europe. ! share the belief that the
Russians are cruel ha observation-disclosures
than any negro tribe" as an American
author puts II. No. the American and
European appreciation Of Russia in
the sections speak of comes from
the Jews. whose knowledge OF Russia
and her people, when It suits them. can
muster up fund OF SentimentaIitv
ana untru beyond the capacity OF
white men. For your Jew. do not for
get IT, although domiciled in West
erh country, or. for the matter OF that,
let his forbears have lived In West
ern country for centuries-that Jew
anywhere, and any time. is an Oriental
He cannot change his spots" any
more than the leopard can change his,
or the brindled cat his bars. The Irish
are said always 10 have grievance
well, the Jews, If they have no griev-
ance. will always manufacture one
racially and II dividualIy It comes
suppose out OF their serviIe and serf-
like disseminated nature Rut enough
Just now of the Jews. am talking
about kronstadt and the Russians
which Will exist and flourish the more
when the Hebrew fraternity are dis
patched hack by the western povyrrs
10 their native sand-you cannot saw
SOIL when speaking Of Palestine
your Jew with his dirty-got gold is
me real great danger in Western peace
one day our csci-headcd politicians
VIII recognize the fact when the ten
men nails Of public opinion have been
driVen into their overpaid brains by
an enlightened proletariat
hrohstadt' There was to be some al
teratlon IN her harbors, Battery Nicolas
ana foFt hronslot, etc, and 2 Jew il
was that early vouchsafed this in
formation 10 the German government.
naturally deutschland has ever been
interested in russian military and
haVal matters. just as much as She has
ever been interested in the Tsar's
dominons commercially
Fortunately for me knew Of A Rus
sian woman in kronstadt--a friend OF
my mothers; but / had never seen her
ms, undoubtedly. was a useful item,
out the Russian woman knew nv rnoth-
er as natura!iZed German. (You have
70 ne more than careful in Kronstadt,.
mo point which next presented itself
10 me waS--of what nationality should
l represent myself in Russia's great
fortress. English or German would not
DO, Tor the island people and the central
people OF the European continent have
Tor many decades past sent their en-
VOWS TO the little island at the gate of
the Neva to learn what was to he
learnt; and many Of these cnvoys
never returned to their native land to
te!l the tale. Death by hanging or n
ire IN the nciEhborhood of Irkutsk
the capital of Siberia. was the answer
Tor undue alien inuuisitivcness Nor
| do blame the Russians for their