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GERMAN SPY SYSTEM. nature. Yet, at the game moment, Eng | SLATIN PASHA AND LORD
land was warming with his spice BRITAIN'S SYSTEM OF COUNTER-craftily endeavouring to plot our down-
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STRANGLE HOLD UPON THE ENEMY. That spice of Germany have been very nctive among us for the past ten years cannot be devied, but in this the third (4 year of war, eave a writer in the Scolanian, Great Britain may certainly congratulate herself upon the possession of a very adequate and effective system of counter-capionage and, indeed, upon having secured a veritable strangle-held upon the enemy's spies.
To the averago man or woman the working of the Intelligence Departments of both branches of the services is ahrouted in mystory, as it must obviously bc.
LIITING THE VEIL.
KITCHENER. REMARKABLE WAR SEQUEL.
There came to Stockholm a little while
fall Indeed, the All-Highest Obe, when I he went to the Guildhall to make a fapeech of friendliness, took his chief apy,
Steinhauer, with him! Three months ago a man who had lived by the sword after the bursting of the war-cland the almost from boyhood, but who, in the sud- Home Office scut a long and delightfully den turn of events in 1914, found himmlf, misinforming statement to the Press in not a man without a country; but a man which we were gravely assured that with two countries-two countries arrayed espionage has been made by statute a against each other in the bitterest of all military offence triable by Court world combats, saya a correspondent He Martial. As a matter of fact the laws had served under the Austrian Crown relating to espionage had been settled Prince and had been mide to Kitchener of by the Hague Convention years before! Khartoum. He had gone into Egypt Again, in this statement we were also when Kitchener was there as a lowly gravely assured that the action taken by subaltern For twelve years he was a the authorities in arresting about thirty prisoner of the fanatical Maidi, and the known spie, who had long been watched, wild Dervish tribes who for a time threw was believed to have broken up the spy back the frontiers of civilisation. Es- organisation in this country."
caping from the clutches of the barba Could anything to more calculated torians, he won the opportunity of parti irritate a discerning public?
cipating in that remarkable march across the desert and the wonderful campaign along the upper reaches of the Nile, which had brought civilisation back to the Sudan and won for Kitchener his first great, fame.
He came to Stockholm from Vicuna unannounced and to all intents and pur- poses incog." There were few who re- cognised him as Rudolf Karl von Slatin, Baron of the Austriga Empire, Pasha of Egypt, Lieutenant-General of the Egyptian Army, Major-General of the British Army, and six times the recipient of the coveted British orders, from Cum- panion of the Bath to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, all won by distinguished service. He was Inspector-General of the Egyption forces under General Sir Francis Wingate when the crash of war in 1914 brought a new crisis in his already eventful life.
When the parting of the ways came in 1814 Slatin found his love for Austria was still strong, although most of his. life had been devoted to Britain and ber wards in Egypt. He had become cast- tially a part of the English military. his fatherland, nor could he serve it machine. But he could not fight against any way against the country which had meant to much to him and which had lavished honoure upon him,
So Slatin regretfully met the issue. Ho missions, sinathed the sword which had resigned his English and Egyptian com
The discovery of the "Spy's post- office" in the Caledonian Road, London, in 1912, was a. most fortunate incident, few months later Mr. Tennant, the because letters sent there from Germany Under Secretary for War, rose in the to be re-forwarded to spies were inter- Rouse of Commons and informed us that copted and copied. They gave us the every enemy alien is known, and is clue to the existence of a very remark-under constant police supervision." Such able state of affairs, and revealed tho a statement did not improve the growing identity not only of the spics amongst feeling of insecurity, and even if it was us, but also showed that Gorman military intended to place the enemy off his guard, desperadoes had been despatched to Eng- it was but a clumsy ruse, for there were land in humble guises, but with special at that moment thousands of the enemy nstructions to carry on certain sinister in our midst allowed to roam at pleasure work, quite distinct from espionage and plot against us persons who were These Hung wero raiders whose hope it unregistered and unknown. So far, was to strike, on the outbreak of war, indeed, from that statement being the sudden and deadly blows with explosives truth, Sir R. Cooper, M.P. stood up and by other names, with the object of in the House and boldly declared that crippling our naval and military or there were aliens in every department of ganisation. For a time they constituted our public services, and that these per: a very grave menace to our country. sons were daily transmitting reports of What blows they actually struck cannot our movements to Germany. Not a soul here be revealed. Certain disasters were, so to contradict him. Why? Because rightly or wrongly, attributed to them. the secrets of our Budget had been known and pablished in Frankfort before they As one who was in touch with the were known in the House of Commons work of canter espionage for several And again, a later and more glaring years before the war, I can testify as to instance of the leakage of information to how excellent were the staff, and how our enemies was when the news of Lord ly, when public opinion declared that Berlin half-an-hour after it had reached untiring their constant efforts. Frequent Kitchener's tragic death was published in
our petice were no use for in ignor London. Who was the traitor 1
Further, the Home Secretary's recent ance the public thought that the police ware charged with auch work begged figures were certainly not very reassur those in authority to allow me to satisfying, for he admitted that no fewer than veil just a little in order to show what certificates exempting them from intern the minds of the people by lifting the 2,233 enemy aliers had been granted was really in progress. But the decision mont. One wonders why?.. He also told been part of his very life, and passed into ng that there wore 9,355 male enemy aliens comparative obscurity in the very midst was always in the negative.
Personally, I think that when an outcryose in London alone, while 471 male of war. Slatin felt, however, there was was raised in 1913 against spies, the enemy aliens were still allowed to live one service he could render with all pro
in prohibited areas 1" One cannot priety. He retarded to Vienna, attached public might have been shown that we were not exactly asleep, as some speakers help wondering what these dear, good himself to the Austrian Red Cross, and Germans and Austrians had done to be is now doing all he can to better the and writers would make out.
The Spy's post-office" was allowed to granted such a privilege, and how many condition of prisoners of war, not alone proceed merrily for over a year, and in Englishmen to-day are living in pro in his own country but as part of
plan to bring about reciprocal agreements that period much interesting correspond.hibited areas in Germany.
Naturally such admission caused son among all the nations zarus, Blatin ence passed through the cabinet-noir. CUTLER PALMER & CO'S, Persons who
sufficiently himself as 4 were quite unsuspectsiderable anger, for it revealed the fact suffered
that the Intelligence Department was not prisoner in the Sudan and has the widest ed were found to be agents Germany, and the possession of a list receiving due support from the Home possible sympathy with any sort of
Office. Fighting crafty and un-captive. of these gave the Intelligence Depart
His mission in Stockholm was to meet ment a decided advantage on the outbreak rupulous foe, as we are, we should
the Americana of war, for some twenty or so dangerous
Embassy in Petrograd to discuss further persons were very quickly placed under
Happily, for loopholes to-day exist, means of relief for the hundreds of thou- ock and keypat dikeland
The secret agents of the Kaiser ent yet these few must be closed. We have a sands of Austrian war prisoners now in here as desperadoes, to commit outrage strangle hold upon German spies, and we Russia, as well as the immense colonies were & borde which, at the time, could must retain it. In most districts in Eng of Austrian civilians interned in various land the army of secret agents has been sections of the big northern empire. The not be effectively grappled with. For that reason guards were set upon rail dispersed and broken, and the desperadoes Austrian Government, he said, was ready auxious to co-operate in any waya, waterworks, power-stations, and are either repatriated, or are among the and such like. The very fact that these 20,000 civilian enemy aliens we hold possible way to better the condition of The prisoners generally, and would gladly. guards are now withdrawn is, surely, to day behind stout barbed wire, silent evidence of the effective measures courts of internment have long ago dis-reciprocate for anything Russia might taken to combat Germany's evil machina covered themselves to be a mere farce,do. He also expressed the appreciation tions. Germany established a canker for the Hun secret agent, a graduate of of the Austrian Government for the relief one of the spy-schools in Leipzig, Fried work already accomplished under the worm in England's heart, but happily nau, or elsewhere, is far too wily and direction of the American Empassy st his purso far too potent. Happily, we Petrograd. Slatin, who devoted his life Though so much excellent work has been have learned a serious lesson. Germany to militarism, speaks now of waz only done, it is unfortunate that public intended to spring some big surprises from the standpoint of humanity.
"We believe Russie is doing the best pinion has been inflamed by the apathy was the sudden rising of an army of it can for our prisoners," he said, but
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craziple, successive Home Secretaries have desperadoes, who were to act at a given the task at times has been too great for bungled very badly over the enemy alien signal, destroy our communications, our the facilities at her disposal, There is question, and it was not before the people water works, our power stations, our especially the matter of medical supplies began to riot against the policy of apathy shipping, and commit serious outrages in and proper clothing. And then, too, one which was inviting disaster, and Lady our arsenals and munition works. But must consider in the treatment of pris Glenesk held her great, women's demon-by the secret knowledge acquired before oners their former environment and mode stration at the Mansion House that the the war, acquired only by paticus in- of living. We think we rather spoil our Cabinet could be brought to realise the quiry, continual watchfulness, and often soldiers in Austr's as a rule, so that great peril, so apparent on every side. by undertaking long journeys into the our prisoners, even though treated with The screaming farce of the ex-German enemy's camp, the authorities held in the, dentical consideration Consul Ahlers consed universal anger formation which enabled them to strangle Russian soldier in his own barracks, will This German official, who had been sol the serpent which the Kaiser had placed feel certain undeniable hardship. On the emaly condemned to death for traitorous with such cunning without our gates-other hand, England makes more of a acts, was not only reprieved, but allowed within the country whose hospitality he fuss over her soldiers than we do over, British Tommy Atkins in an name, and entertain his brother Huns in leated so pathetically in that famous Austrian camp would feel as badly treat- to hide his identity under an English accepted and over whose suspicion he ours, 30
ed as some of our men do in Russia It a snug abode in a London suburb. At interview in 1907.
Germany herself admits that we have is all a matter of degree," the moment we had Germans in every. walk of life, and in all our public ser- for she has now expressed herself readyener. When the subject first was men- Then the conversation turned to Kitch. upset her plans and discovered her plots, vices. Indeed in the first eighteen months. of war
with the thousand and one to exchange her 4,000 half-starved civilian tioned Blatin was quiet for a long while. examples of Mr. McKenna's paternal prisoners interned at Ruhleben for our At last he spoke,
Kitchener," he said, "was one of the leniency towards the enemy alien, of 26,000. This is a bargain which, though which the reader is too well acquainted certainly one-sided, is nevertheless one most remarkable men the world has ever by the comments of his daily papers, it which, it accepted by us, would meet with known. I know the general impression seemed to the people as though the British public approval, for we have no desire that he was but a man of iron and steel. to feed and clothe them further, Prob a machine without warath or affection. Government actually protected the Hun.
I happen to know full well that this ably, however, a good many of those in feeling was, unfortunately, also growing terned at Alexandra Palace and else among our Allies. As one who, since where would hesitate considerably to 1906, had had something to do with secret return to Huntand, dreading the fate
there awaiting them. service among Great Britain's enemies, I can assure those who read these lines that although our Intelligence Services,
Even though so much has been done to combat the spy menace, I go further,
It is true Kitchener was difficult to approach, Hig regard was not easily won. But once you knew him and he had tested you no man could wish for truer, more whole-hearted friend. Having knows Kitchener in the daye when he was first winning his way to military
a position to appreciate to the full all
We strongly recommend every man 200 directed as they are by a nameless but and contend that every German, no fame, having ridden beside him in battle ! woman reader of this paper, who is thin, most astute official, to whom the highest matter what he may be, should, in these and victory, having known him as a task-
days of grave placed securely his or her buoyant, youthful energy, or claimed, have done their level best to under lock and key. I, long ago, sug who suffers from loss of appetite, or from combat the German in our midst, until gested to the authorities that the 26,000 that his loss meant to England and to debility, either nervous or Physical, to try some months ago they unfortunately did med interned should be repatriated, the British people. It means much to m A new scientifically compounded prepara- not receive such a hearty measure of sup- and that the remainder of the Germans as well. What a pitiful fate fi wat. It at large should be interned in their place, over soldier deserved a better death, it port from the Home Department as might It is to be hoped that this will be done. was the Kitchener I know at Khartoum tion called Bargol,
Further, certain The trouble with most people who appear have been expected.
The only serious menace now remaining. "Some of our newspapers in Austria like a bag of bones" is not that they unfortunate Ministerial statements had don't get enough to eat, but that they do been made in the House and in the Press is the release of interned enemy aliens commented rather flippantly upon bis not assimilate what they do eat. They before the war, which were, in the light and the leniency shown to German death, but that was not right, and it The female spy is much more did not reflect the general sentiment of simply go through the natural motions of of subsequent events, proved to be not women.
our people. That is what I mean when eating, bus the flesh-giving part of what in accordance with fact. Hence the man dangerous than the male of that genus, they on just passes away without being in the streat believed himself misled-as and we should not forget that before the I say the partisan newspapers are doing war Germans conducted the white slave so much to engender hatred and bitter- sasimilated, and opusequently does not do he undoubtedly was.
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Have I it the best terms with England.
ertainly a matter of congratulation ever been false to my word? Falsehood that we have rectified many of our poli- and prevarication are
alien to my tical blunders in dealing with espionage,
(Continued at foot of next Column)
and that we have gripped Germany's spy system with a strong band. PATA
As one who has some knowledge of what has been done-things which the public little dream-1 personally view the present aspect of affairs with the greatest satisfaction.