Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-25
SECRET CODES ARE USED
BY THE GERMAN SPIES
Investigators Find Messages Hidden
AWAY in Cigarettes and Many
Other Devices.
TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN
Before Being Accepted by Imperial
Government for Duty, Applicants
Must Pass Through Spy School
Located in Berlin.
BY WILLIAM DE 0CEUN.

BY WILLIAM DE ouEUN.
(Intcrnation News Bureaul
II is certain that the Germans know
as much about events in Great Britain
as we do ourselves.
Frequently ! am asked. "IIow does
the. enemy. obtain his inforlnation?'
and 1t is that question which | shall
As pioneer student OF spies and
their methods of communications. one
whose advice and opinion WAS sought
by the government for some years be-
fore the outbreak of war. I may per-
haps be permitted TO speak with some
First. it must be remembered that
tho spies employed by Germany i'm our
midst arc not mere incompetent busy
land. but ar" persons OF both sexes who
have been through the Berlin spy
schools--in tho Roonstrassc for men
and thoroughly trained in that branch
OF tho gentle art OF espionage in which
they have bccn found to be most fitted:
In prc-war days. in consequence of
on friendly terms with Il good many
spies, of various nationalitics in the
tween Paris and PetroErad and from
Cadiz 10 Constantnoplc. Indeed. it
was to my advantage TO cultivate their
ricndship-Ciermans. Austrians. Rus
slams. Scandinavians. Grceks--in order
10 learn their mcthods and at the same
their activity.
the mos; rcsourccfuI inseno and
painstakinc. while running them very
closely was the old and ugly Baron
ness s.. OF Vienna. who is chief OF
tho Austrian secret service
II must here be lcma. kcd that Ger.
:lan enterprise during our period of
national slumbcr is shown by the fact
that the only reliable guidebook of
while tho bcs, ALTA; Of the British Is
lands is that engraved by Steilcr. Of
No British publisher troubled to
bring out a complete and reliable hand
book to Britain. and left it to "Bae-
dSker, whose .GGuracy is unimpeach,
snort cuts only known to the oldest
II the compiler OF "Eaedekcr" has
surely the agents OF Koniggratzer-
strassc have done It in even more COIN
p!ctc detail: In December. 1918. while
friend who was a high official in the
cartoSra phical department OF the adj
tosraphs of the cast coast Of Scotland
which had been taken from a sailing
boat by certain Professor, Frankie.
half-insane ydchtSman and an ardent
photographer.
Upon examining them realized they
were in series. which, If placed to-
ramic view OF the whole coas; from a
point south of, Lcith - above Aber-
The yacht upon which the picture
taking professor had travelled had been
allowed 10 pursue her peaceful way
M and down the coast. while at the
present moment that beautiful set OF
views forms one OF the treasures. OF
pcrial German navy.
Not long ago the secrets of our
newspaper in Frankfort twelve hours
before they were known to members
OF The House OF Commons!
They could not have been disclosed
except by betrayal by somebody in a
high and confidential position.
our means Of communication is un-
that there exists more than one secret
station OF sufficient power to send mes
sages across the North Sea 10 tho big
Tciciunkcn station at Norddeich.
My own experiments in wireless.
conducted over course OF six years.
have shown that "aerials" for rcceiv-
cealcd in chimneys, strung across the
roofs OF haylofts. erected to look like
inc Wire stay to a hagnole. or even
"iI,E MtrTRr:SSS DISCLOSES
WIRELESS AiN MESSAGES
have listened TO Paris. 10 Naucn, :.
nc.T i'otsdam, to Madrid and rola win
AZ! lnsrumchtS merely connected with
a ware mattress IN an attic, while /
nave ncard tue tine signals sent from
the Eiuci Tower upon a home made
receiving set wnich cost me IL sniil.
nSS anu could be carried ~ a cigar
Biitsn COASTS. tncrc are also no DOUBT
Il number secret ow-power trans
lii,tins stations wnicn, while they can
roniinunIrat, with enemy submarines,
are Almost impossible 10 detect.
ihe!r direction only can be located
by me use OF a certain instrument. but
not lnclr actual position. y secret
gh-powcr N'Irc!oSs station could not
Ne'y Wen cNist IN our midst, although