Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-09
Spy, Detected, PurSued,Run
 Before Guns
English Battery Command. CT Finds Two Huns
 Phoning Position

London, April 11.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.)-German spies have been a continual source of annoyance throughout the recent Brit. ish retirements in France. Many of these spies have been detected in British uniforms, presumably stolen from bodies of the slain. A British officer in a letter to the Daily Ex- press, tells of an encounter with two such spies.
 "I had been ordered to take up Il position with the two guns of my sec tion of our infantry were being forced back" he says. "I was on a crest just in front of my guns ready and wait ing to open fire and observe the rounds, but the specified time had not arrived.
 "On the right of me was the road along which a few minutes before I had managed to get my guns. It was packed with infantry, transport, guns, prisoners, and stretcher bearers strug- gling along with wounded. Something or other called by attention to two signallers striving to lay out a wire from the road towards my observation post. l could hear gibe made to them, some witticism which caused a laugh. Then some one else's guns to the left opened fire. In a few seconds 1 picked up the target, a blue-grey shadow advancing in apparent silence over the top of crest two thousand yards away.
 q gave the order to join in the chorus of guns. The rounds were bursting beautifully, and I picked up the range quickly and we'll, but I mo- ticed Boche shells beginning to fall on and about road, bursting with marvellous precision.
 "I glanced behind at my guns, just as a shell burst one hundred yards in rear of them and another one hundred yards in front-a beautiful "bracket," positively uncanny, as the guns were in splendid position and certainly could not be seen.
 "I knew what that bracket meant, and longed to give the take cover, or der to my gunners but only for one moment. Our job was to carry on. So we fired away as rapidly as we could, for, after all, we do not often have the luck to shoot at moving mas ses of Boches.
 "A few minutes later I received the message: "Both guns out of action, sir" l gazed round with a jerk, and there below me, sure enough, both guns were knocked out.
 "The Boches had begun another de- liberate shoot at the other guns, and 1 could see at glance he was some- h de recting them for line and range, and yet there were no Hun airplanes up aioft to do it. A marvellous mystery. 1 determined to go to my guns and do my best to get them into action az ain, SO off I moved, lodging around the ancient shell holes of 1916, jump ing across old German trenches.
 "1 had hardly gone twenty yards when heard buzz quite close, the buzz of field telephone buzzer. I came up behind two men in khaki with the familiar blue-white band of the British signalling corps on their arms, evidently the men I had seen before, one gazing towards the batter ies on the left, the other buzzing Quietly approached. Then I grasped the situation.
 | "With running jump I leaped plump on the instrument, yelled, and hit out with one fist under one jaw and another on the back of square hard head.
 "Gott in Himmel!" came from the hardheaded man and a guttural groan from the other whose jaw I had hit who lay apparently stunned.
 "Then in a moment 1 was kicked in the back, which sent me reeling.
 "I picked myself up, to find boti, Boches tearing away towards the road. They had some yards start, but I gave chase. One stumbled and fell made, a rush, and before he. .cbuld rise kicked .aslI l never shad kicked before regular proper punt. That settled him, and on 1 went.
 "The other ran on when suddenly he disappeared in a cloud of smoke and deafening roar He had run in front of our batteries. Fate de. creed the fato of ono h,,t 4h<