THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 29, 1940
SECRETS OF THE GERMAN ESPIONAGE SERVICE
THE WAR OF
One of the principal methods of espionage as employed by: the Ger- mans in Poland consisted in economic penetration. The object of this was to control the military potential, to pro- cure documents, to prepare sabotage, to hold up the supplies of raw mater- ials when the time came, etc. It has already been pointed out that the Ger- mans were especially interested in aviation, in the chemical industry and in telecommunications. Recently, they were also interested in the automobile industry. The Germans succeeded in organising a far-reaching economic penetration, thanks to their commer- cial travellers and representatives and also to their specialists.
The following cases have been ad- duced: The X. aeroplane factory, specialised in bombers, the Y., . fac- tory in screws; the Z... factory furn- ished packings. And the labels for these packings were produced by a printing plant. The last-named, which was not bound to military secrecy, aroused the interest of the Germans. The result was that they were speedi- ly informed of the number of planes and screws that had been packed.
This is how the Germans were per- fectly aware of the strength of the Polish air force. Poland had excellent pilots who, very fortunately, have not been captured by the Germans. The words I heard on the lips of all the brave Polish fliers during my wander- ings in Poland were: "If. we only had 500 pursuit planes."
Poland, at the mercy of the enemy owing to the destruction of her aero- dromes, had to organise her anti-air- craft batteries as best she could-for instance, to install them on the roofs of town and even county dwellings. The trains evacuating the children should also have been armed.
-By- Konrad Wrzos
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nounced by Germany did not. ake metallurgical industry, the chemical place.
factories and the wireless enterprises.. In the suburb of Praga, a powerful Numerous technical posts in these in- short-wave transmitter was discover-dustries were occupied by German ed at the house of a German agent agents. This penetration was facilitat- who for long had succeeded in posing ed by the centralisation and the de- as a Pole; it was concealed in a ward-velopment of these industries.
one of their agents, who employed robs. During the whole of the hostili- The German economië espionage luminous signals.
ties, this sender continuously des- was organised in Poland by the great seminated news calculated to produce German chemical and electrical firms. It is unnecessary to mention their names, too wellknown in all countries by their propaganda for their medi- cal specialities, their cleansing pro- ducts and their electrical apparatus.
a panic in the country. Before the war, this spy had been generally reputed as an honest tradesman and as an ardent Polish patriot. But, in fact, most of his commercial transactions were with Germany.
And then a further chapter of this narrative: the secret wireless trans- mitters. During the defence of War- saw, the Polish listeners heard the voice of an unknown speaker asking the population to cease Its resistance.
Further, the activity of the foreign He spoke Polish perfectly and even
advertising agents of these firms was took care to announce the time of his And not only the German firms had not confined to the commercial next emission... But meanwhile, the in Poland numerous representatives, field.... Here it is possible to touch Polish technicians had succeeded in but many of their enterprises had upon the case of one of these advertis- locating the secret post, which was established branches in the country, ing bureaux in Warsaw, hidden in the suburbs of the capital. The German espionage service had The result was that the broadcast an= |ramifications which extended to the
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The fourth day of the war, one of my colleagues and myself accom- panied the British military mission from Lwow to Pulavy. Hearing that a French diplomatic courrier, Mr. G.. had arrived in Lwow, I persuaded him. to come with me in my compartment and thus was able to save the precious documents in his possession. During the night, our train continued its journey without any incident, but as soon as day broke, a German plane pursued it and made it its target. It may be queried whether the pilot had been informed that members of the British mission were travelling by this train. The British were convinced that this was the case. Their conviction was based upon the fact that the passage of the British mission had been an- nounced by telephone at the Rumanian frontier. However this may be, the journey was extremely lively; at every second minute, when the plane ap- proached, we had to get out of the train and take shelter in the fields.
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The reactions- of the British were perfect, almost automatic. When the train stopped for a few minutes, they took this opportunity to get out and shave. When the danger increased, they took off their golf clothes and appeared in uniform. The French courrier was imperturbable; his whole mind was concentrated on his "pouch" for which he would have risked his life. He had already seen the war of 1914 and was well acquainted with the German methods. We could not ab- stain from shuddering at the sight of the tiny corpses of the children who had been killed during the bombing' of the train that had preceded us. It was an unforgettable vision of tragedy. and horror.
At Lublin, on the eighth day of the war, I chanced to pass by a military hospital The courageous doctor, Cap- tain K., who united in his person the functions of ambulance driver,, sur- geon, male nurse, etc., told me that wherever it passed, his ambulance had been closely followed by the Ger man planes. The Germans, were re- gularly informed of its movements by
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