Evening star., 1918-08-18
Finishing Touches of Intrigue Masterpieces


stage OF Europe and are forgotten.
Their schemes, too, are like last
years theatrical success; once play
ed they are soon out of date. Spying,
like the stage and feminine styles,
demands new sensations. Police fool
ed once are not apt to be misled by
must have an endless storehouse OF
raw material to draw upon and q
boundless supply of Ideas.
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There are In this trade, for instance,
two kinds of agents. the real and the
false. The former are the ones who
have the dangerous commissions; the
mon and women who do the difficult
jobs; the men who rob mail boxes
and enter hotel rooms. who cross
frontiers with forged documents and
steal confidential documents. The
latter are the men and women who
spread false rumors: who try to sell
misinformation to the allies; who In
spire fake accounts in neutral news
papers. The latter are the travellers
from Germany who rush to entente
consulates as soon rs they reach a
military, political and economic in
formation; all OF 1t carefully arrang-
ed by the enemy beforehand. Ger
many not only employs men and
women to obtain information, but to
spread reports. She searches for hid
and the allies and distributes half
baked facts about herself. Germany's
ruthlessness is not confined to the
seas. Her intrigue Is not limited to
Europe. Her schemes are not curbed
by international law. All her hopes
and aims are not limited to her army.
tion for the finale. Her military,
naval. financial and miscellaneous
spies whose work has been described
In this article. are only the forerun-
ners. the vanguard of the future.
Until today German agents have been
United States. When this years bat
ties, end there will be a new spy on
the horizon; new spider web will
be woven around the world in a
single night. 1t will be net OF
peace
The coming spy is the superspy.
realization and humiliation Of Ger
man victory. a Compromise peace" or
a German peace" The coming spy
is the peace spy: the man with the
olive branch and, the patent medicine.
He is to put the finishing touches
upon the masterpieces of intrigue and
deception which all of his predeces-
sors have been working on. He is to
be new type, a new creation, q new
model.
The German army might have been
crippled long ago and the German
spies been checked If the spider web
had hpan nj ta1v Ir0knr n o.
'the last year the web had been tear
ing: 1t has been torn in hundreds Of
places. There are moro German agents
In prison today than the outside
world imagines. They have been
caughts everywhere and at all jobs:
and energetic. For more than a year
now they have had the cooperation
Of the United States. and this new
unity has proved effective. The Ger
man spy today Is still as dangerous
as he ever was. but the system has
ficiency. To German success there Is
only one open road, one channel. one
line In the enemy web. That is the
road to a peace this year. Heace the
appearance Of the superspy.
Plans are being made today for the
government has promised the people
peace this year by German victory
in the west. The battle cry for the
eighth German war loan was Peace
in 1918" Yhe corporations. the banks
and the people subscribed nearly
fifteen billion marks This ia the
largest loan ever raised ir Germany
This money is to be used to fight this
summer apd to make peace this fall.
a great part Of this fund will be at
the disposal OF the superspy. A new
web Of intrigue ana deception will
be spun around the world. 1t will
glistcn in. the sunlight like spider
web across a cottage door. Behind
Il will be the present German govern
ment. In the center will be the spider,
the supersnA.
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