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How a Frenchwoman became a spy because neither the French nor the English air ser- vices would engage her as g pilot during the war. is told by Marthe Richer. familiarly known as "The Sky-lark" in “I Spied for "France" (John Long, 15s.).
In a. foreword the authoress says that:
"To be a spy during wartime does not mean, as sensational no- velists picture the role, plunging into, romantic adventures to which an additional zest is given by the spice of danger. It does not mean merely playing the part of the fatal woman, of turning people's heads and of worming -out secrets which one can sell for enormous sums of money.
"Hard, Risky Work" "Being a spy in wartime means real hard, risky work. One is en- raged in the Secret Service, one is always working in the dark, and one is liable at any moment to be trapped -to meet "death secretly and mysteriously, or face a firing squad.”
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Marthe Richer álmost faced a firing squad on several occa sions. She was what was known as an "agent-double."
Marthe Riche was apparently. working for two countries France and Germany. While she
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was in the German service, she was actually gleaning' informa tion for the French secret vice, at the same time giving. very little away to the enemy.
She relates how she met the German agent, General von Krožn and gladly agreed to work for him when he asked her to do so.
It was the very thing she -wanted, and she was enabled to go to Paris -- ostensibly for von Krohn, but actually to give valu- able information to Captain La- doux of the French secret ser- vice.
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sdogs Ukpak.
time he looked ahead it seemed
The huge brute, completely that Ukpuk was glancing back, white, with an enormous ruff twisting his head round to glare and the fangs of its wolf grand, balefully at the white man who mother," was « eternally alert trudged in the rear.
There was something in the On the sled was piled the sum deep brown eyes, with, their of Dixon's possessions, a great swift glances that stirred a heap of pelts, that could be trad- | latent uneasiness, that brought ed farther south for the absolute a shiver through the skin at the necessities pressing necessities nape of Dixon's neck. It was of life." It had been “impossible as if Ukpuk suspected. Again to abandon them. A man must and again Dixon had caught have money, or its northern that backward glance, or a side-equivalent: especially when the long quick look when the teari man is a fugitive, hunted across was resting, that betrayed an the Barren Lands with his life invincible enmity.
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It was unnerving. Flodding along behind the sled, dragged with straining difficulty over the wet soft snow, with the team bunching together and growing rebellious, Dixon kept his eyes as much as possible on the treacher- ous ground, chammed by snow- shoes and the pawmarks of the team and the cuts made by the sled's runners. Only now - and then he looked-ap at the bent
He was worn out. Often he figure that toiled in the van staggered, одре or twice he the figure of Pupik, the Eskimo stumbled and fell sprawling, to prodding the snow at each steprise with his parka soaking from lon- the lookout for stags of harethe wet melting surface of tha
rock that might damage the run- snow.
ners and strand them here, in Every limb ached. The break- up was slow, incredibly slow." It was nearly impossible to travel. That was his ganger but also his one safeguard.“. If he could not- travel, no more could the TROUBLED" WITH Mountie who was somewhere be
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He must press on. There minS be no delay. As
they reached the village where Pupik's people were encamped, he must force them to take him out in one of the whale boats, and get south. South, there was a railhead; he
Hollywood (California)- Shirley Temple is learning than you have to go back to school even The "opportunity" was off if you are the world's favourite might have a chance. But south ed in a letter to William film star at the age of six and a Candler the Atlanta financier, half.
was far away, only as yet a
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|who described it as the "crazi- After her holiday in Hawaii, dream, with six hundred miles of
est he had ever received.
Shirley is back again in the spe Mr. Candler turned the pro-cial studio school that she attends Bay when the break-up
He had been making for the {position: over to Chief Postal In-This is her second year at school,
caught spector James W. Cole, who for and her teachers find that she is him... On the river, he had lost warded it to Washington for in a very good papil-Except in his sled, his dogs, the greater letter offering brand new titles vestigation. Mimeographed, the mathematics
part of his equipment, saving She cannot get the numbers only his weapons and his pelas for sale tore the name, Mr. Cole right over 50 and that makes it He had pushed on without the said, of "F. P. Reinach, Washing hard to judge the value of money village, on the shore of the Bay, pelts until he had found Pupik's ton, D. C
when you are on the decimal sys-and-had persuaded them to let In the presence of the Diplo •The letter said there was periences was to be taken for a matic Corps and his Ministers, need for creating a titled gentry “Shirley can count perfectly up
Pioneer Airwoman Mme. Richer was an airwoman before the war.
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him have a man and a team to spy before she had actually be the Emperor solemnly opened a in the United States as a "directo 50 her teacher, Miss Lilian go back for the pelts. But it had come one.
small model prison on the out-tive class because "society itself Barkley, told reporters at the been heavy roing, and time was Towards the end of August skirts of the city last month appears to be dissolving."
school "Above that she goes com- precious. 1914 she set out from Paris to The project has long captivated Price Range Quoted Crotoy to pick up her airplane the imperial imagination, and the Hence the proposal to self s
pletely off the track.
His mind began to wander. He
She found that she would not be foundations of the prison were few titles.
"She still thinks that 47 cents was numb, he felt as if a band of forehead is more than 55 cents.”
ice constricted his allowed to use.
laid two years ago, but, like all Here were the price range
Specks danced before his eyes, While she was driving back tolEthiopian public works which had quoted: "Dake, $1,000,000* mar- Paris her car broke down a few been discontinued, it was recent quis, $700,000 count, $500,000
The eyes of Ukpuk were immer.se challenging, alive with suspicion, miles from Amiens. Mme. Richerly hurried forward as a piece of and baron, $200,000.
They reproached him, they warn started to hunt for a mechanic,
propaganda.
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A little bit haughtily the letter
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"Since, in spite of all, Temple is far above the average to Dixon -that Ulyuk knew.
that the mechanics had gone to plan, has two stories, with these sums are of little impor-
the war. She was given a lift in gallery of concrete. The archi-tance as compared with the glory ligence test showed that she has a what he was planning to
* bay cart when they were stop tect was a Belgian, but the Ea of forming part of this class of mental age of nine years and seven whenever they reached the river ped by two gendarmes.
peror personally supervised every new elite, titles will be conferred months more than three years again, where he stood no chance “Of course, she's a spy," said stage of the construction, contra only when the sums are sent with
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* Danger Of Erliching Villagers swarmed round them, shouting “Death to the spy?”
Mme. Richer records that was terrified as the villagers com
buting suggestions.
in-18 hours after the receipt of this letter Otherwise the che There are 60 cells, each con-¡ques will be returned. faming from four to-ziz bunks. The standard of comfort offered LAST ROGERS JOKE
{to- criminale" is not only frimend surably superior to that of the Komes of the law-abiding people
but is also equal to that of the leading hotels here.
"there are shower baths, a lam-
tinued to follow behind. Lachary, a dining hall with enam her!! Kill the spy! they cried.
When it was found that she had, led ware; and a recreation 200
containing educational” facil
a revolver, it was, in the eyes of in the shape of primers and ele the country folk, evidence of her
guilt
stary reading exercises.
When she was questioned about These things seem superfiu
in view of the governor's the revolver, her reply did not satisfy the police. A sum of 300ment that the prison is
francs in her possession was
clusive use of murdere
regarded as suspicious in the ing execution, but
thority states that it is to be used
mind-of a policeman who had 2 for those guilty
*monthly salary of about 200
franes.
So the future pyas kept in a provincial police station for two days. At lastaa message came from Paris which secured ber release.
Then Mme icher Joined French seer
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of being bushed but had simply Her vocabulary comprises 750 to follow it down to the village, words, all of which she can write he was going to do that thing It is said that the average adult that Ukpuk suspected. vocabulary is only 450 words. He found himself muttering- are technical cinema terms. Many of Shirley
unmeaning words, they seemed, muttered deep in his throat his lips barely open. - There was rawdamp chill in the air that went to the bones. His hands were quite numb. He re Rochester, NI Motorists are warned by the ed, and began to beat therm His + lagainst his sides, aga Roy Dee Lytle, a--Rochester Automobile iropractor who has returned danger of fallen leaves. They are chest, folded them, in their thick rom-ra fishing trip to Alaska, urged to take tells of hearing one of the last travelling in woo jokes made by Will Rogers, short- dark.
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