The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-23
Spies Master Coups
 Described By Writer
Hundreds of Thousands Still Work at Espionage in
 Europe-Dog Trained as Spy

, and direction of furrows which plowmen plowed in their fields She sent them by carillon playing on belfry bells, each range of notes carrying a musical message Twenty-two times she gave French and Belgian staffs the ex- act description, strength and placement of German artillery. This resulted in IS direct hits which killed men and animals, tore to pieces the batteries.
 More than a dozen times she got over or through the Dutch border despite the 14.000-volt charged wires which the Germans stretched along the frontier. She went behind the barn and learned to vault until she was able to vault herself over the wires Tn safety.
 Dog Trained as Spy
 Then she trained her police dog to leap the wires hollowed out his teeth, wrote important messages on the thinnest paper and rolled them to fit into the tooth. In one such report she wrote 3,O0o words and drew maps to describe the German positions and equipment in Belgium.
 In her spy layout. she had priests, plowmen, children, oeli- ringers. peasants and washer women. They helped 1900 Bel gians to run the border and get out of German territory. The peasants helped her to get seven Belgian officers escaped prisoners, safely across the line.
 She hid the men under load of hay in the second of two wag- | ons. At the frontier the German sentries poked their bayonets through the hay, found nothing and invited the driver to enter the sentry-house and sign the regis ter. Meanwhile the second hay cart had drawn up alongside.
 The driver came out of the centry-ho mounted the second haycart and drove away, with the officers safely concealed, while the guards went through their exam ination of the other cart over again. Finally, Mime de Bettigny was | arrested in Tournai. She was un- l able to explain the presence in hei pockets of 26 false passports. She was sentenced to death, but Gen. eral von Bisseng commuted the death sentence to 27 years ir l prison, A few months later she died at Cologne during an opera ton. When the British marched into the Rhineland, her body was | exhumed and sent back to Lille her birthplace.
 Master of Disguises
 "Mlle Docteur" was only slight ly less successful. She was known to counter-spies as "the woman oi a thousand disguises." One day she would have golden tresses, an other day would find her a bru' net. She paraded as a girl stu. dent, as man soldier as a peas. ant woman, Red Cross nurse and even, upon occasion, in French
 uniform. She spoke English anc
 French without an accent, and al the outbreak of war was a student of criminology in Lausanne.
 Belgium's greatest spy was Ga
 brielle Petit, now acordedc tht
 same veneration as France give'
 Joan of Arc, because she was sho
 in April, 1916. on the same rint
 range which saw the execution ol
 Edith Cavell. Gabrielle died witf
 the words "Vive le Roi" on hel
 lips; she had refused to allow hel
 eyes to be bandaged.
 Her greatest feats were carry
 ing messages through the lines 1T
 metal tubes in her mouth. When
 ever she was searched she swal
 lowed the tubes. On one fatal trip
 the Germans saw her swallow
 gave her an emetic, recovered he
 message and ordered her shot.