The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-15
When Was A Spy In Hunland
Daring Exploits of British Girl In Germany-Gulling
 Love Sick Professor at Krupps

! or aeroplane. I am told that a visit
 to Krupp's factory at Essen might throw some light on both subjects.
 and I know you well enough to real
 ize that to suggest it to you that you | should get into Krupps in some way 1 is to be certain of your acceptance. | need not impress on you the urgen- ' Cy of the matter, nor will I say any ! thing of the risk, because we who ! have been in this service so long l know that risk Is an essential part [ of it. When can you leave?
 I must say that the news was vel come to me. I had been chafinS un-
 der my inactivity and wondering if they had forgotten me altogether. l
 had not at the moment the remotest | idea of how l was going to get into 1 Krupps' factory, but I was determin-
 ed to get there one way or another. "I can set out tonight" I replied,
 "and hope to be taken too as a work | CT before the week Is out"
 "Very we'll" was the reply You will find this address useful It is | that of one of our agents at Essen. 1 As soon as you get the information or
 any part of 1t, you will pass it to him. l He has means for getting anything | over the border into Austria, and l then through Bulgaria to a trusty
 source. I wish you goodbye and | safe return"
 That night I was on my way 10 l Essen, and by noon the following day l I was in the waiting room at the | Great Essen Works awaiting the de l cision of the management on the of
 fer of my services. I had selected the ] best possible time for my patriotic
  1 German armies in the early autumn
 had resulted in a vigorous cOmbing ! out of munition factories, and as that l synchronized with a greater demand ! for workers owing to the need for l larger munitions O'tput, women were | taken on in thousands as fast as fac
 tories could be found for them. That day a new factory had been | opened at the Krupp works, and I was offered employment at gauging 1 shell and cartridge cases in the exam [ ming room. I accepted the offer. I 1 started that afternoon, and for the | first days I had to learn the myster- ] ies of the work. It was rather mono | tonous. ] got little time for recrea- | tion, because the twelve hour day | was general, and after a day spent | in that vitiated atmosphere one felt ! the need of all the sleep one could | get.
 On the Scent.
 l came to the conclusion that itI would suit my purpose better 1T i could be put on the night shift, and ] made the suggestion to my chief. She explained that it was not the custom to put new workers on the night shift, but as I seemed keen, and was making rapid headway, she would mention the matter, and if l did not mind going through the twenty hours she thought that I could be trans 1 ferred immediately I found that discipline at night was not so very strict, and there were plenty of opportunities during the supper and refreshment hours for getting into conversation with girls and men from the other departments. Soon I learned the position of the aeroplane and chemical works, and one foreman was able to tell me that the new gas was being manufa Ctured in a special laboratory not very far from the factory in which we work | ed He said it was very deadly stuff, | and that mon who worked there were | complaining of the serious effect on l their health. It was increasingly diff | ficult to get wOrkmen, and the Gov | ernment had been forced to put Rus | sian Government prisoners of war . into the factory to make this vile | stuff.
 This forenoon offered to introduce me to a young man employed in the chemistry and research department, who could tell me something about the conditions of employment there in case wanted a transfer. Next night I met the yOuns man, and I found that he was quite the person needed. He was an ex-sOldier who had been taken from the army be- cause he had been one of the most promising students of chemistry at Heidelberg and was employed In testing the effects of the new gas. He seemed greatly interested in me, and evidently desired to be more than friends He told me the inter esting fact that his department was engaged in perfecting a high explo- sive shell for greater power than any thing possessed by the Entente Pow CTS. I pretended to be skeptical on this point. and the young man be- came more emphatic.
 What I tell you Is absolutely true. If you doubt my word 1 will show you my report. This angered him in to saying he would show it to me He brought ii to me during the supper hour, but 1 kept nm Ialklng on dl- most every subject except this until the bell rang to warn us that it was time to get back to our respective factories.
 "Oh, bother, I exclaimed, there goes the bell and I haven't had time to look at your papers yet Never mind" he replied, utterly unsuspi- ciou3 of my real eagerness, take them with you and return them to- morrow night"
 A IIovc-Sick Chemist.
 That was what I counted on. After leaving work 1 went straight to my lodgings and made a copy of the re- port, which was, fortunately not very long. I took it to the medium at Es- sen and got back to the works in time for starting another night shift. was naturally very tired, having -one without sleep, but I was more than repaid for my weariness by the knowledge of my success. I had still to get the formula for the poison gas, but I had little doubt of my ability to secure it from my susceptible had hattar than l