The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-24
ST. M|HIEL MAP OF GERMAN SPIES BROUGHT VICTORY How Captives Gave Ameri-
 can Army Help is
 Told. WE'RE USED TO EXAMINE PRISONERS Brought To This Coun-
 try As Part of Reward.

1 An account of how the AIrerfcan | Army was aided by the two Ger
 mans who were brought to this coun
 try on the U. S. $. Agamemnon was ] given yesterday by Q former non com of the Headquarters of the i American First Field Army. The non-commissioned officer, | sergeant, assigned to G 2, the intelIi- 1 gence branch of the Field Army staff, | declined to permit his name to be used. He said that for months he had
 worked with the two Germans. 1 According to the sergeant, the men | received a sum of money from the
 American Government, and were | housed and fed with the enlisted men l at field Headquarters.
 Bothe the Germans, said the ser | geant, feared for their lives if they | should come into the power of their | countrymen. Even after the armistice | was signed he said, this fear remain 1 ed, and the men from time to time | remarked that even in America they would be in danger of being murdered 1 by German secret service agents. 1 From the sergeant's account it ap- l peared that one of the prisoners, l Ado1ph Scholtz, was captured during ] raid on the American trenches just
 before the St. Mihiel drive. He was a | private in a Prussian infantry regi- | ment.
 l q know both the men who came | here on the Agamemnon," he said. | 'I am surprised that the mystery i which enshrouded them at our head | quarters is still maintained. Any num- | Der of men in the A. E. F. must know 1 all about them by this time. "One of the prisoners was en en- 1 listed man in the aviation service, l " m n came down behind our lines in the | Argonne. I didn't know him so we'll i as I did Scholtz.
 AS I remember Scholtz was brought | into headquarters while we were at 1 Ligny, a. good many kilometers be- | hind the lines. He came with a lot of | other prisoners. We captured almost
 the whole raiding party of forty that | time, and what first attracted atten- 1 ton to him was his neat appearance, as compared with the others I found out later that Scholtz did 1 not divulge much information that | first night, but som methtng in his at | titude and the nature of his replies 1 led officers who questioned him to hold him for observation Several times he was taken aside and tested l for information, and gradually 1t 1 came out that he longed for a chance
 
 | the militarist system, and would do | anything to get a safe passage to this l country.
 'I do not know positively but from | conversation I had with him later I | believe he received a large sum of money and a promise that If he prov | ed reliable he could come here after l the war. It was also promised that on no account would he be allowed 10 ! fall into the hands of the Germ ans. Shortly after this we put him In | an American uniform, without insig- | mia, and he had the free run of bead 1 quarters. A few of on duty with the intelligence branch knew who he was and what he was doing, but out side of us few not a soldier knew Scholtz was any other than what he was represented to be, a. civilian at- tacvhed to the army as an interpreter. He ate in a casual mess, where the men came and went, with none staying permanently. He was quiet
 and was generally liked by men who knew nothing about him. The officers
 were good to him, too, and would give him chocolate and cigarettes I know this. for I have had him share them with me.
 "Scholtz told me he was nineteen, but I imagine he was a bit older. He
 
 University before he was drafted
 to the army. and as he appeared more than ordinarily well educated I be- lieve this was the truth.
 "It was during the St. Mihiel flight that he first helped our offensive. Ne was a draftsrnan, and his ability to
 carry the details of a map in his head
 was astounding. When he went into the St. Mihiel drive Scholtz sketched | e. N< %1o
 most troublesome German batteries which were guarding the outer cir cle of enemy defenses. So well did @ give us the dope on these guns that our artillery put them completely out of commission before ths drivo vas fully under way.
 --"Scholtz would be dressed as a German officer or enlisted man, and
 would be sent to the cages where the
 newly captured prisoners were kept until they could be sent back. He would work up a speaking acquain | tance with several of them, for in 1 stance: What did they ask you up- stairs? Did you tell them the
 truth ?" Perfectly natural questions, but vftally important to our officers, | who wanted to know whether the
 prisoners had been speaking the truth. "I remember one incident when ScnOll1 showed us dH OlliCoI WdS Iy- ing. I remember it particularly for the | punishment we gave the officer. It | was German Major. echoltz, dressed as lieutenant discovered the Major l had lied. You know we used to thraa | ten the officers and men that if they l lied they would be shot, thought We could not carry out this threat "In this case the Major was hanl- ed up out of bed and taken before American officers. Some German pri- yates were led into the same room. Then, after the Major was accused of lying, his insignia was stripped from his uniform while the privates '-oked on and he was sent to the cage ,or enlisted men for the night. The next day he was detailed like an eh- listed man, for the dirtiest jobs around headquarters.
 We had to be careful that Scholtz's activities should not be discovered by