The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-02
BRITISH ARTILLERY
 OFFICER TELLS HOW i HE CAUGHT SPIES
Found Two Germans in Stolen Uniforms Giving Range to Guns of
 the Enemy

London, May 11.-(Correspondenc of | the Associated Press .)-German spies have been a continual source of an- retirement in France Many of these spies have been detected in British uni l forms, presumably stolen from bodies of the slain. A British officer in a letter to the Daily Express, tells of an encounter with two such spies.
 q had been ordered to take up po- sition with the two guns of my sec- tion as our infantry were being forced back" he says. T was on a 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 had managed to get my guns. It was packed with infantry, transport, guns prisoners, and stretcher bearers strug- gling along with wounded. Something or other called my attention to two { signallers striving to lay out a wire from the road which caused a laugh Then some one elses guns to the left opened fire. In a few seconds I picked up the target a blue-gray shadow ad- vancing in apparent silence over the top of crest 2o0o yards away.
 T gave the order to join in the chorus of guns. The rounds were bursting beautifully. and I picked up the range quickly and we'll but I not iced Boche shells beginning to fall on and about the iNld, bursting with | marvellous precision.
 | "I glanced behind at my guns, just as shell burst 100 yards in rear of them and another 100 yards in front beautiful bracket" positively un- canny, as the guns were in a splendid position, and certainly could not be seen
 q knew what that bracket meant and longed to give the take cover or | der to 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 have the luck to shoot at moving masses of l Boches.
 "A few minutes I received the mes sage, Both guns out of action, sir" l gazed around with a jerk, and there below me, sure enough, both guns were knocked out
 The Boches had begun another de- liberate shoot at the other guns and could see at a glance he was some how observing his rounds, and correct
 
 there were no Hun airplanes up aloft to do it. A marvellous mystery! de- termined to go to my guns and do my best to get them into action again so off l moved, lodging around the ancient shell holes of 1916, jumping across old German trenches.
 T had hardly gone 20 yards when heard buzz quite close. the bugs Of field telephone buzzer. I came up behind two men in khaki with the familiar blue and white band of the British signaling corps on their arms evidently the men I had seen before. one gazing out toward the batteries on the left the other buzzing. Quietly l approached. Then I grasped the sit | uation.
 With running jump leapeld plump on the instrument. yelled. and l hit out with one fist under one jaw and another on the back of a square. /, hard head.
 'Gott in Himmel" came from the | hardheaded man, and a gutteral groan | from the other whose jaw had hit who lay apparently stunned | Then in moment I was kicked in the back, which sent me reeline ] picked myself up, to find both boches tearing away toward the road They had some yards start, but I gave ! chase. One stumbled and fell. made l a rush, and before he could rise kicked as l never had kicked before | a regu.1r, proper punt That sett1ad 1 him, and on 1 went.
 | 'The other ran on, when suddor,,, he disappeared in. cloud of smoke and a deafening roar. We had run in front of one of our batteries. Fate decreed the fate of one, but the other had settled--with hob-nailed boot :"