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Comprising:-
Carpets and Rags, Sideboarde, Dinner Chairs, Waggon, Dining Tables and Chesterfold Bofan, Arm-chairs, &c. Wardrobes and Toilet Tables, Double and Einglo Brass and Brass-mounted Bedsteads, c., Miscellaneous Furniture, several lots of Blackwood Wars, Pianos, Porcelains,
.. &c.,
Alp A few lots of Brass Vases, Flower Pots, And
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GERMAN SPIES IN FRANCE. motor glider, extremely powerful, with s
THEIR METHODS OF OPERATION.
SOME TYPICAL EXAMPLES.
BY GEORGE PRADE IN THE TIMES."]
secret services agents among members of
BRITISH SOLDIERS IN MARSEILLES.
ERANCE
Sir Thomas Barclay writes in the Brewing Standard describing how the people of Marseilles have taken the British soldiers to their hearts, He
sent he has acquired by patience or conquered by physical persistence. The cam by-the-bye, a long way out of town, the Marseillon City Fathers, like the London County Council wisely seeking to relieve the congestion of the poorer districts by tramway facilities. As the car grows more packed, boye squeeze on to the footboard, and hang on to everything to which they can cling all a good-natured over the dia costas at
motor of 400 h.p., saisined the prodigiou speed of a hundred kilometres (2 miles) fan hour Boat sad motor were built by TOMMY SETTING THE FASILION IN - 31. Despujols, ■ Paria manufacturer, and the glider was piloted by M, Soriaoo,ta Spaniard. On the last day of the racën we heant hat the boat would not take pars in the trials, as the motor had already been taken to pieces, and sent Every Ceraian is a potential spy. The
away. On inquiring the name of the!
Never out of Now York at office servila character of the race, its profound buyer who had paid £2.400 for a contempt for all self-respect, makes is specialized motor which could only be closing hours have I soon racers so crowded as they are at Marseilles consider espionages & service to the used in racing, and withdrew it from the towards evening, when our Tommies State. honourable because it is useful. contest the day he bought it, we learned aro let loose ce Tommies as the The German idea of the polico aystem that the motor had been sent to Lyons, arseillais affectionately call them, get their seats the civilan iad always was publicly explained before bed from there immediately forwarded per
offers his to a soldier: He is not Reichstag by Hert von Puttkamer,
to the well-known electrical and dirigible always equally polite to the weaker Secretary of State for the Interior. Her manufacturing firm of Siemens Schlackert, sex, not seeing why women and girls Richter, chiet of the Opposlilan, had a Biesdort, near Berlin. Later in the who crowd into the car should fave roproached him with having recruited course of another inquiry with which I Parliament, wives of Deputies, Ministers, as ficially entrusted, I asked
Despojals for the details of this affair.
This is what he told me. An individual, M. Schmidt, who pretended to be a Russian, but who biyaya atered German motor boats and raced under the Creeman flag, was to have competed against W. Despujols heat. Instead of doing so he bought the motor. Implicated in this strange affair we also discover an engineer at the tameris arm of Bosch, the magneto manufacturers, who represented the The State has the right, and it is its German house of Siemens, Eren" the duty to
extraordinary methods. workman hired at £8 a month by the Besides even if Police Magistrate committee to repaint the boats which had Rap, an honest and estimable fureuffered through contact with sea-water," tionary, had used the methode with which took hund in this peenline business. he is reproached to assure for the State distributing bank notes lavishly useful information, I would hero publicly. According to M. Despujos, the motor, expres my satisfaction and my thanks.
which reached Berlin at the end of April Theud words give the measure of the 1914, was destined to forms part of a race, and explain its mentality.
curious motor-boat-torpedo, filed with I am not familiar with the methods of explosives, and running antematically. German spies in England, but, in the the steering apparatus being controlled course of various investigations carried from a distance by Hertzian wares. This out in France, I have had opportunities explains the role in the affair of the firm of noting the working of the German spy of Siemens-Schuckert. Such as enginez system in this country, I suppose their had it been perfected, might in a navel methods are the same in England. · battle have been directed from the skies The characteristic of German spionage. by a Zeppelin. and sent to attack Which before the war employed abroad British warship.
members of the Court, and the wife of the Protect of Police; bad mentioned the aubventions accorded by the police to establishment like that of the women Krause, where trape were laid for magistrates, and foreign diplomatists; and had asorted that Police Magistrats Ramp? was responsible for all these suspicious maneuvres. Herr Puttkamer replied in these words :---
more than 80,000 men, is that it utilized almost exclusively agents established in
The engine of this motor-bost, extremely sight, for its power, was offered to the the country where they were to operate.French air service in July, 1915, But the Our naire. Governments were in the habit Germans had secured it in April, 1914-
Monsieur Tomay est adorable" ob served"
young lady friend.
Why do you te him so much "′′ He is so clean and well-abaven so cheerful and strong, and he wears his uniform as if he were made for it."
Poita 1
*
A LIMIT TO · ADMIRATION, Do you like him better than the “On, non monsieur!" And the young ady was quite shocked at the possibility. of her contrasting "Tommy" at Marseillen the fog and the mud and the sleek a with the "Puila" away at the front in unshaven may be, but giving his life that they, at Marseilles, may enjoy theirs.
the cicar
lear bright And we looked up at heaven as the car spun mund the beautiful corniche and if the little French woman had read Byron she, too, might have been recalling his line .....
All save the spirit of man is
divine But that applico caly to the Boches" just now, she would have said:
Tommy is setting the fashion here. A man smoking a pips in the street used to be regarded as highly improper, and people would stop to look at him. Now every other Frenchman smokes a pipe.. Even the shert stick is coming into rogue, and be hums Tipperary" as if he were born to it. He is ever setting the social ton. People here sent to me less boisterous than they used to be. and you see men walking three abreast
7 A SPECIAL ÉRZZD="
of sending to Germany travellers of a This carious story, with every detail of kind who were promptly unmasked, and which I am familiar, shows better than whose slightest questions during their
any treatise the methods of what is known rupid passage excited suspicion. The
as Germen industrial espionage. It iin silence, just like any three Britishers German spy lives in the country. He assuredly a bolder plan then the furtive generally engaged in business, which
copying of designs and sketches, explains his presence, justifies his journeys, his absences, the money be receives, and the letters ho sends. One of his most convenient profession is that of insurance agent.
COPTING INVENTION
"
The Marseilles people call the Tom- mies who are hero cura, as if they vere a special breed; and they are 8.80 in a sense, because they have been at the foot and are new as repor before they go elsewhere-ad they are experienced soldiers, have had their training under fire, and, like all men who have survived the front, look splendid. But the Marseillais are given to exaggeration, the fond ilus.om that there
Foara have good time.
And the Indians
Ona method, however, does not prevent the other
At the present time & good deal is heard of thren German aeroplanes In the course of an inquiry I conducted the LV.G., the Avistik, and the into the affairs of the German insuranen Fakker. All three, are copies of Franch
important concern of its kind in Europe, imitation, made. before the war, of the with promisma representing Over Morane-Saulnier, built of metal. In £80,000,000 all over the world of which April, 1914, the two brothers Wroblesky a Ze sont magnifiques. I must intro- 12 millions are in France-I discovered constructed a similar machine at Lyons duce you the chief native cavalry in its offices in the Avenne de l'Opera One of the two killed himself while officer. And my escort, the most wat Paris, a peculiar organization known as testing it. Some time after a German able of friends and captains, le Marquis the Special Büro. In this office the traveller arrived and took a room in the of the arched me to the other and
Cam
horses were being where employees were all Gerada, young men house of the surviving brother.
He trained, and introduced me to a tall, between 36 and 30 years of age, officers showed great interest in the invention.handsome turbanced officer, who, how in the German reserve, who spent five and disappeared with the plecs a low ever, spoke but a few words of Englishs or six months in France. They received days befers the outbreak of war. For the and no French. He was making a a uniform pay of £40 a month, with an last three years the L.V.G. Company has magnificent charger, do his paces. The price is yen 6 (19%) or #3 per copy, allowance for travelling expenses. They been directed by a Swiss, named aaked the colonel to tell him I should like to see him on his steed. He gave me Orders for the book should be accompanied spent their time motoring all over France Schneider, formerly foreman and friend, an Oriental smile, and softly answered, by payment,
Their favourite region was the cast of aven confident, of the celebrated Edouani "Not yet ready," and the officer told me
calted ful horse, which he
Gift
from Subscribers for the second sonnal edition France and the Alps. A few days before Nieuport, the creator of the entirely he was madly in love with this beauti of Who's Who is Japan' will be allowed the mobilization in July, 1914, they all covered-in apparatus.
Heaven, anul which he was training a a reduction of one you
disappeared, having crossed the frontier. A few weeks after the death of if it were e delicate child. A little One of them has since been reported Nieuport, Schneider crossed the frontier Gurkha then mounted a refractory 'spinning acting as police magistrate at Baden Into Switzerland, and shortly after beast, which sent his turban Baden.
arrived in Berlin. I visited his work in and his long black hair wared to WORKS OF INSURANCE COMPANIES ...." 1919, and recognized about three fourths bucking of las mutinous mount, but he
held on
of you
en like to try This organization is typical. Insurance of the workmen I had known in Paris. Would any companies,"
when even
conducted In 1914 they were all dismissed and him1" asked the officer, and out of a crowd of soldiers stepped a. redhaired young Midlander, who held on equally "parently in honest fashion, constitute replaced by Germans.
well, to the delight of his chums.
company the Viktoris zu Berlin," the most machines. The Dutch-made Fckker is aandonimies like "on" Tommies. "So j
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polities. The Berlin office of the Viktoris.
MTD.W.Baxumister Mr A. Shelton Hooper 30 Cornil BondoR & GOTCH, 16 8t.
Kojimaoul Tokyo,
the secured the names of all the French "Le Journal a series of articles.com
Mr. H. Baring Mr J. St. & Hant officers who owed it money. It will be cerning Dr. Cousin, an original French
Germans hava given it out that the HW LL. Barker Capt. Hussey admitted that this was an excellent inventor, who believed he had discovered Russians at Marseilles are really Ber Miss Beanville MFE M. Joseph
Mr.B. E. Bahlion Dr A. T. Kuodegr which to base an entirely novel principles of flight, and bians in disguise.
Mrs E. R. Belilios
Beer & Mrs C LL Col. Faichnie" Arrangement "on organization for espionage. I expressed regret that France had not
Capt & Mis J. Lennox Mr W. H. Ford Here is an example of German methods given him the means of realizing his Professor F. W. Forsten, of Munich Mr C. D. J.
Bickertou J.Birbeck
Bir 8. Longfield
Mr Denman Fuller applied to important French industrist invention; I immediately received affers University, contends that the war is Mr H.
MrAH called cultured nations in Europe, and
Mr F. C. Blea "Major D.
donald Creunat Warks. It is very difficult and important German acropine factories. I not to Prussian Germany.
de Branch Dr. O. MarrÍKA);
Bruce Mrs F. Molarity very dangerous to attempt to Sad out replied to them avaively. E
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Dr GW. McKe from day to day what they possess in 1 in unnecessary to describe the
Mr A Hazeland Mr & Mr material and workmen and their capacity familiar methods of minor spics operating Universelle declares that Verdun will Mr. R. Bachan
bring about the rain of D-Geranan Mr Burns Mr B. R. Mehta f production, in time of war. A Spy on the front of the Army, huokatoes, cs,The Beview adds the the Mr and Mrs Butter-Mr. Mereck
worth Family Me and Kr. O. P Mr and Mrs D. K. Smith. passing through the town is quickly polari, and shepherds. But I may Central Empires still have. 8,000,000 remarked. Here is s much simpler plan, mentions curious spy agency established men with very meagre reserves, while Capt. 1 Cassel Minnitt
Me DiMe MUSTAJA Mr.CE Chabl The French companies with which Le in Switzerland since the war, under the the Allies have 5,000,000 soldiers, with Mr & Mrs C. Chenet Mr and Ms Mr Mr Les Jo
MHAR Conant Dr and Mr W. W.
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