Norwich bulletin., 1918-05-21
STORIES OF THE WAR
Trouble With German Spies.

Correspondence of The Associated Press):
 German spies have been continual source of annoyance throughout the recent British retirements in France. i Many of these spies have been de- teeted in British uniforms, presum- ably stolen from bodies of the slain A British officer in letter to the Daily Express, tells of an encounter with two such spies.
 T had been ordered to take up a position with the two guns of my section as our infantry were being crest just in front of my guns ready and waiting 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 l had managed to get my guns. It was packed with infantry, transport, guns, prisoners, and stretcher bearers struggling along with wounded. Something or other called my attention to two signallers striving to lay wire from the road towards my ob- servation post I could hear gibe made to them, some witticism which caused a laugh. Then some one else's
 guns to the left opened fire. In few seconds 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 well, but l noticed Boche shells beginning to fall on and about the road, bursting with marvellous precision.
 T glanced behind at my guns, just l ayde in i rear of them and another one hundred yards in front beautiful "brackGt, !" positively uncanny, as the guns were in a splendid position and certainly could not be seen.
 I T knew what that bracket meant,
 and longed to give the Take cover. order 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 l have the luck to shoot at moving masses of Boches.
 1 "A few minutes later I received the 1 message: Both guns out of action,
 sir" I gazed round with a jerk, and l there below me, sure enough. both guns were knocked out.
 | "The Boches had begun another 1 deliberate shoot at the other guns, and l I could see at a glance he was somehow lobserving his rounds, and correcting them for line and range, and yet there were no Hun airplanes up aloft to do it. A marvellous mystery! determined to go to my guns and do my best to get them into action again so off I moved, dodging around the ancient she'll holes of 1916, jumping across old German trenches.
 I had hardly gone twenty yards when I heard a buzz quite close, the Il buzz of a field telephone buzzer. came up behind two men in khaki with
 the familiar blue and white band oi the British signalling corps on theil arms, evidently the men I had seer before one gazing out towards the
 batteries on the left, the other buzzing Quietly approached. Then I grasped the situation.
 with a running jump leaped
 pdump on the instrument, yelled, anc l hit out with one fist under one jaw and another on the back of a square hard head.
 "Gott in Himmel. came from tht hardheaded man and a guttural groaI
 from the other whose jaw I had hit
 who lay apparently stunned. Then in moment was kicked fl the back, which sent me reeling. s T picked myself up. to find botl ' Boches tearing away towards tn
 road. They had some yards start
 but I gave chase. One stumbled ant
 fell I made rush, and before h
 could rise kicked as never had gick y ed before-a regular. proper punt r That settled him, and on I went. 5 The other ran on when suddenly h 6 disappeared in a cloud of smoke an e a deafening roar. We had run il
 front of one of our batteries. Fat
 deereed the fate of one, but the othe pI had settled-with a hob-naile boot"