Evening star., 1935-06-09

ever. that Number One was quietly traded for
a German Number One who had been caught
by the Poles - and the luCklesS women tools
went the way of all cannon fodder.
Cannon fodder, is the apt term for them
Scarcely week passes without the chancel-
lorieS having new story. tragic, comic.
romantic, or sordid. about the latest woman
spy. They are a good-looking lot. the new
batch of Mata Harris who suborn bribe, cor
rupt, procure. receive. pass on, entanele.
blackmail. compromise, listen or steal
some bring off a coup before they get
caught - like the stunning Marie Martin,
who. before she was arrested at Helsngfors
last autumn, had contacted a Finnish staff
officer. enslaved him. and got him over the
frontier into Russia with bundle of valuable
military documents. Others achieve nothing
but trouble.
No photograph of the celebrated Marie
Louise" has been published This is pity,
because those who knew her say she is a
worthy addition to the espionage beauty
parade. A slice of the $500 900 spent annually
by Britain on secret service went in asccr-
tanning just what this Gree wanted in 1888
with the man who is now Prisoner 1856 in
Maidstone Jail.
The British Military Intelligence must
have been considerably surprised when they
learned that Lieutenant Ballie- Stewart man
of family. officer in the crack Seaforth High
anders. had made suspicious contacts during
visit to Berlin. and was now meeting a
pretty German girl at port on the wrong
side Of the Channel. They gave him just
enough rope, and then gathered him in
The traitor was stunned How much did
they know? He found that, incredibly. they
knew everything. They knew he had been
making memoranda on tanks and tank tactics
He might explain that away. They knew he
had been meeting the girl Well, he could
plead love affair. They knew he had been
writing and receiving suspicious letters
they had photostatic copies. He might even
find plausible answer to that But the girl
had made an error. She had given him money,
which he paid into his bank account Fool!
She. professional. should have kept him. an
amateur. right How could he explain that
money away?
ne Invented tIle desperate tale tndt Marie
Louise" had paid him for favors as man pays
a coutesan. But the court preferred to think
that Marie had paid him for information He
went to Jail for five years; and a mitarzed
state hungry for information lost willing
traitors aid through the folly and unima-
ginativeness of its young woman agent.
La Belle Sophie fell victim to her frontal
assault tactics. Since her arrest, romantic
tales have gathered round this girl beside
whom the original Mata Hari looks like pre-
war can-can dancer. She was the chief link
between the German spy ring in France and
Berlin headquarters. Somebody in General
Headquarters decided he would like to have
one of the new French machine guns: and
Sophie got her operation orders.
She arrived in Metz platinum blonde,
fashionable lady of pleasure apparently. with
plenty of money. and nice taste in officers.
The sensations of the % year old machine-gun
corporal can thus easily be imagined when the
synthetic siren. aluring mysterious dazzling
one day turned upon him an eye eloquent of
admiration. In next to no time, she made this
humble soldier her sweetheart The machine
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