The Indianapolis times., 1931-01-17
SPYING TRADE
NEARLY AS old
AS CIVILIZATION
Moses Sent His Secret
Agents Into Canaan for
Information.

AAft VI
This Is the last Of Ralph Heinzen's
six articles on the peace time espiOnaKe
systems Of Europe.
BY RALPH HEINZEN
United Press Stah Correspondent
Copyright. 1881. by United Press
PARIS, Jan. 16.- Spying, as a
profession, is almost as old as civil
ization. Moses sent his agents into
Canaan for information.
During the World war, Germany
had $4,000 men, women and chill
dren in her spy service, civil and
military, and as many more agents
of the Allies operated in and on
both sides of No Mans Land.
The world may look askance at a
spy and may not see the glory in
the brief careers of Mata Hari,
Louise de Bettigny, Bolo Pasha,
Eva Hornetter, arrested at Calais a
month before the war broke out in
1914 with plans of the defense of
every fortified port along the
French coast, but to the spies these
names are written in a Hall Of
Fame.
At the outbreak of the World
war it become evident that the
secret agents could not cross the
firing lines with information. It
became necessary to find secret
channels so that the constant
stream Of information could not be
checked.
Switzerland and Holland were
used. There it was found that
Spain, more remote from the front,
was a good base also,
Spain Was Clearing House
The Germans made particularly
effective use Of Spain. It was
clearing house for news carried by
spies from France. The German
embassy in Madrid hunrned like
bee hive.
Mata Hari was only one of the
famous figures that worked out of
the chief spy's Office there.
There was an efficient German
news center at Barcelona. This
one took particular care Of news
from the trenches, while the elite
agents in the capital took care of
state secrets, government prepara-
tions, troop preparation and. espe-
cially, financial problems of the
continuation Of the war.
Many French and Belgian de-
serters found their way to Spain,
without any resources. Some Of
them. joined the German spy Or
ganization.
Spies Spy on Spies
The French, too, sent spies into
Spain to watch the Germans and
particularly to spy on spies.
That was the way Mata Hari was
traced, shadowed and finally sent
before a firing squad in the moat
at Vincennes.
Famous among all spies in Ma
drid was "Alice Dubois" the name
under which Madame Louise de
Bettigny was known in spydonl and
on the books Of the French general
staff.
Captain Felix Bauman, an officer
in the German Intelligence Service,
wrote that Germany had~I1othing
to offer to compare with the craft,
courage, Sang-froid and results OBJ
tained'' by Alice Dubois.
Grn THaxy6,. Yt1AI 49,
twice.
Woman Fools Germans
Twenty-Five times she furnished
information and maps to the
French and British of German ar
tilery batteries.
Eighteen times her information
resulted in total annihilation of
that artillery.
On a thin sheet of paper, of
Chinese fabrication, which she in
serted in followed tooth Of her
dog and sent back to the French
from inside the German lines, she
wrote 5000 words about the posi-
ton, strength, equipment and morale
OF German troops.
She wrote other messages and
rolled them in the hollow rims of
eye glasses which young Belgian
wore when he escaped across the
Dutch border.
She trained a dog to leap over
the electric fence which the Ger
mans strung along the Dutch
border and the dog carried hundreds
of messages into Holland, where
French agents awaited at the home
kennel.
Finally Is Arrested
Alice Dubois herself vaulted this
fence many times.
She got seven Belgian officers out
OF German prison camps and across
the border into Holland by loading
two wagons with hay.
They drove to the frontier, one
with seven men under the hay.
German frontier guards drove long
spears through one of the hay wag-
o1ls and allowed the two to pass.
Alice Dubois had drawn up the
hay with the officers beneath on the
side nearest the guards. Her trick
worked.
She finally was followed from
Spain, arrested in Journal and SEN
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