The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-28
with a German disguised as a British

friend the other naval officer but he only laughed. I knew enough Ger man to test the man I suspected, who was then going in the name of Lieu tenant Martin, and I found him con- versant with idiops and tricks of speech that made 1t clear he must have been educated in Germany.
 Suspicious of Her Employer.
 Tt was after that I decided to re- port the matter to Graham, and when l did so l got a long letter from Graham. in which he thanked me for the information, which he de- clared was of great importance to the authorities, who were acting on 1t.
 Some weeks afterwards Graham drew my attention to paragraph in the papers saying that a certain Ger man officer named Lody had been shot in the Tower, and he told me that this was the man I had advised him of. He said that he had passed my information on to the authorities, who had made the arrest. I thought it strange that I had not been called as a witness at the Court-Martial. and asked Graham why that had not been done. He said that there was other convincing evidence against Lody, and, as I was busy on some
 
 me.
 "I was shown a picture of Lody and had no difficulty in recognizing | him as the man I had met in the uniform of a British naval officer. | This man moved about the west end l in broad daylight, and was admitted | to some of the best Service Clubs. He 1 appeared to have plenty of friends among naval and military men. and | was very charming person, quite witty and entertaining in his way. | What did surprise me was that naval | officers should not have detected at | once his ignorance of the facts that | one would expect a man in the Brit | ish service to know. suppose they | were used to newcomers in the l service who were landlubbers that | they did not think it odd that Lody or Martin should be lacking in knowledge of the disposition of the ships of the Grand Fleet.
 | Graham" Miss de Beaucourt went on, was eager to know if I had mentioned the matter of my sus- | picions of Martin to anyone else l | said that I had not, though that was not strictly true"
 | CT cannot understand who gave | him away, then, if you did not speak to any one else,' was the strange re- | mark of this man, who had just l few minutes before complimented me 1 on the service I had rendered in re- | vealing the masquerade of this Ger | man officer. He saw his bIunder | almost as soon as the words had left l his mouth.
 | What is the matter with me?' he exclaimed petulantly. T don't know | what am talking about. Of course | 1t was you who gave him away. What fool I am tonight! I think I am | overworked.'
 The more I thought of that incl dent the more was I uneasy in mind about the bonafides of Graham; and now that I know the truth about the man I can see that he was decetving | me right through He was not in
 the British service; he did not pass on to the authorities my letter; some one else gave Lody away, and Ora ham was trying to find out if by any chance I had put others on the
 track, others who might not stop at Lody.
 Few British Born Spies.
 Miss de Beaucourt, who was Brit
 ish in spite of her foreign-sounding g
 name, was ready enough to give in
 formation regarding other women
 
 am glad to say that very few British
 women aided the enemy in this way. Of the many women spies we dealt
 with, only one of those who could be
 held guilty in the strict sense of the | word was of British birth. and she
 had a German husband. The others had, like Miss de Beaucourt, been
 dragged into the business unwittingly The unfortunate girl was sentenced to | Rtra l,,% was. I have an impression. an under , standing that she would be pardoned as soon as possible in consideration | of the circumstances under which she
 had acted and the services she had rendered in helping us to get on the track of the agents of Germany then In London.
 The information which this dupe of the Germans managed to get for her
 employers was not always valuable Indeed it was frequently most nis. leading. and intentionally so, for the - officers who were selected as victimi g were not invariably fools. The Ger 5 mans were much nystihed just after T the first Marne battle regarding the intentions of the British army fol the future. and fin particular they were curious to learn if any troop. e from this country were to be sent tc l huSS1a 10 StlIIen the ftuSSldn QrlVe 1 into East Prussia.
 g Bogus Information. 5 It was the policy of the Allies to r foster the belief in Germany that ths e East Prussian enterprise was intend r 1 ed to be a much more serious affair e than 1t really was. and officers ana 8 men were encouraged to do all 1T n their power to support the theory O. e a British Expeditionary Force beint = ssnt to the Eastern front. How Mis- l. de Beaumont and other German L. agents were used to convey this mis = leading information to the enemy wa made clear when she was telling m, y her story. On this point she said tt d mel
 @ Graham urged me to find out i g officers were indiscreet about tn, IS plans of the British Government fo s backing up the Russian advance int l. East Prussia by means of large ex It peditionary force. He said that sucl l an enterprise was contemplated, bu | that the dovernnenf fearad pevya o