Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-20

some or them cannot be disentangled.
AT the beginning of this article I told
OF my experience with Williams in
tne SWISS mountains. I thought that
hlghts experience was a failure. A
rev weeks afterward, when I saw
Williams again, l twitted him about
What l called his wild goose chase"
speaking Of geese" he said, I'VE
got a boche on the lake the other
night. / had been going UP to the
chateau every night for three weeks.
lhere has not been a signal sent or
received and the auto has stopped
making Its nightly visits. While we
Ialled to catch the actors or actresses
we broke up their show, and, one
night while was standing there, high
above the lake and searching the
shores or France with my glasses I
saw motorhoat cross the lake. l
thought that was queer performance
ana the next day l began an investiga-
tlon. l found one of these - boche
was paying S35 a niLht to the Swiss
authorities for permission to hunt
wild ducks on the lake at night.
You speak about wild goose chase
what do you think of that? Well, we
landed him all right and we've got
him where he won't hunt ducks for
a while at least
You see" he concluded some
failures end in successes"
Thus it is that spies appear on the
stage of Europe and are forgotten.
Iheir schemes. too, are like last years
theatrical success; once played they
are soon out of date. Spying, like
the stage and feminine styles, de
mands new sensations. Police fooled
once are not apt to be misled by the
same schemes again. The system
must have an endless storehouse Of
raw material to draw upon and a
boundless supply of ideas.
Various Grades of Spies
There are in this trade, for instance,
two kinds of agents, the real and the
raise. The former are the ones who
nave the dangerous commissions; the
men 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 con.
f1dential documents. The latter are
the men and women who spread false
rumors: who try to sell misinforma-
ton to the Allies; who inspire fake
accounts in neutral newspapers. The
latter are the travellers from Germany
who rush to Entente consulates as
soon as they reach a neutral country
and offer volumes of military political
and economic information; all Of It
carefully arranged by the enemy be.
forehand. Germany not only employs
men and women to obtain information
but to spread reports. She searches
for hidden truths about the United
States and the Allies and distributes
half-baked facts about herself Ger
many's ruthlessness is not confined tc
the seas. Her intrigue is not limited
to Europe. Her schemes are not
curbed by international law. All hel
hopes and aims are not limited to he
army. There is still greater object
| Everything so far has been prepara
ton for the finale. Her military, naval
| financial and miscellaneous spies
whose work has been described in thi
article, are only the forerunners. tn
vanguard of the future. Until toda,
German agents have been working {
defeat the Allies and the United States
When this years battles end ther
will be new spy on the horizon;
new spider web will be woven aroun