Evening star., 1918-08-18

the Enemy S,gna/-
ing Across Lake Ge-
neva -. The Various
Grades of SPIES.
the United States and Europe. This
was planned in Berlin and at German
great headquarters. From every neu-
trail European country the system at.
tempted to send agents to America.
sieged by neutrals and German
friendly Americans desiring to go to
the United States @"on business,' or
to see sick relatives" All varieties
OF excuses and explanations were
pffered.N A man in New York, for
instance, teIegraphed to brother in
switzerland that their mother '.was
dying" The relative in Switzerland
applied for permission, to go, to New.
York and exhibited the telegram, as
The French censor, however, fearing
that the message might be code,
changed the. message to read that
Mother is critically ILL.," After the
agent had filed his application he
and cabled to America: s5
viii come as soon as possible. Is
mother critically. Ill or dying?"
because American and French of
fctais were working in harmony the
application. of course. was refused. :
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When It became evident to Ger.
many that the United States was in
earnest and would send an army to
France every effort was made to
learn the name of the French port
where our troops would disembarlk.
This information the imperial general
stan wanted, in order that the Ger.
man navy and the submarines might
be informed. Throughout the summer
German agents endeavored in every
possible way to get this information
land, Spain. Hplland. Switzerland and
the Scandinavian countries were
combed for this information. but the
secret had been well kept In Wash-
ington. and it had been carefully
formed in Europe. AS days and
weeks were multiplied into months;
as U-boat after U-boat went out into
the Atlantic TO look for the road in
the ocean over which the transports
formation the tension in Berlin
reached the breaking point. Ameri-s
can t'bluff' was making good in an
unexpected way. 5s5. -. .
Germany knew better than any one
be done. The .boasting Yankees''
could not play such trick upon inn
perialized Germany. 7sfss :.
/ do not know all the schemes and
plans which the enemy Matched. AS
usual. Germany worried in the dark
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and apprehensions. Even today 1t il
not possible to disclose all the secret
maneuvers of enemy agents. 1t is
impossible because they are unknown.
/ cannot state that the trick which
Germany attempted to play on the
last fall was for the purpose Of getting
agents to French ports. 1t is a fact.
however. that Germany's attempt was
made at time when she wanted In
formation from these ports. In a
German friendly newspaper there was
a brief notice inserted in the Help
Wanted" column reading somewhat as
:
'Taborers wanted-The American
forces in France desire neu-
trail dock. workers and common la
borers for employment at French
paid. Inquire at No. -, --strasse."
The addressrgiven was that Of the
American mt1Sry attache.
Early the following day, when he
reached his office. he was greeted by
eight or ten labOring men. They !,
showed him the announcement and
said they were willing to accept en-
ployment providing American wages
In France were as large as they were
reported to be in the United States.
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The colonel knew that he had not
caused this advertisement to be pub..
lished. As far as he had been in.
formed the American forces in France
had expressed no desire for such em-
ployes. He was too busy to stop to
explain to the eager laborers, but in-
formed them that he knew nothing
about the ad. -
AS he opened his mornings mail he
found a number of letters from other
workmen who had read the ADVERTISE
ment, but who could not leave their
sition. They requested details by
mail. For several days workmen and
letters came to the attaches office,
Each time he had to make the same
reply. After several days had passed
tho secretary of the interior of this
neutral nation announced himself at
the attaches bureau. He showed the
colonel the advertisement and said
that he had come at the request OF
his government to call the attaches
attention to the neutrality laws of the
country. which forbade diplomatic of
ficials from doing the sort of thing he
was doing.
Being an officer who had seen service
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