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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.
The Rhine Flows On
SYMBOLIC of the ramifica-
tions of the Franco-German Agreement, signed in Paris this week, is the statement that the Rhine no longer separates the two countries politically as it has done for centuries, but con-
stitutes
a connecting link be- tween them.
between
Lasting accord France and Germany would be one of the greatest benefits statesmen could present to
civilisation. But civilisation, remembering past professions of mutual and everlasting friendship between nations, in- cluding Great Britain, will al- most certainly remain sceptical. If this scepticism remains in the hearts of the German and French peoples, the pact is fore-doomed.
The world will hope that this latest step towards appease- ment will establish a new era in international relations which
other countries will follow.
Pirow Shows A Way IT IS BUT a matter of weeks
Stewse
WHEN 6938 DIGS UP 1938
Messages from our time to people living 5,000 years hence have been buried at the World Fair grounds in New York.
W
Our own
-Strube in the “Daily Express"
spies
are not so bad,
come to that
AR Ministries all over Europe and Asia watched New
York's spy trial, where espionage had its biggest show-down in twenty years.
-by- Percy Hoskins
vants, usually ex-military or naval officers who are linguists.
The work is usually drab, and at a rate of pay which would not excite an income tax collector: £1,000 a year is very good money in the hush-hush service.
No country is over lavish in its payments to secret agents. Steinhauer, the ex-Kaiser's prin- cipal spy, used to complain that he was almost invariably kept short of money. Had it not been for the meanness of the Wilhelmstrasse the German
But apart from the audacious for democratic Governments to spy-ridden country in Europe. espionage service would not have attempt to forge President have secret funds for the expen. Last year the French authori- collapsed so ingloriously as it did
more espionage in the early stages of the war. Roosevelt's signature, it showed diture of which they cannot ac- ties convicted
detail, suspects than in the whole ten the nations no new methods or count publicly and in
In 1936 WHICH Country pas- Especially as it must be admit- years before the war, technique.
seases the best spies? ted that 75 per cent. of the in the number convicted was 204.
For the amount spent, as com- The general principles of formation paid for eventually The world war enlisted thou-
pared with other countries, Bri- of adventurers in sabotage, mailbag robberies for proves to be just rumour or rub- sands
tain can claim first place, al- espionage, killed a good many of though our agents slipped up plane, "ngony" codes, and-at a bish.
Secret Service work in Spain them, enriched or ruined a few very badly in 1935,, when they push-kidnapping, were all there just as they were in 1914. and China at the moment, how- and conferred some enduring told Mr. Stanley Baldwin that ever, must save Britain some fame on a mere handful. To the German air power was no- If it had been little less ambi. thing like £200,000, for from day, there are very few civilians where near our own or ever
thesc war-ravaged countries in the employ of the Secret Ser-likely to be. tious the plot would probably-
Military Intelligence Department vice. like the hundreds of other con- No. 5 has been able to obtain ceived in the cause of secret ser- very easily plans of new Ger- vice each year—never have been man, Italian and Russian guns, discovered.
airplanes and tanks.
France is probably the most
This particular scheme, which emanated from the Dundee hair-
They had not at that time dis- UNLIKE the Germans, covered the underground works who employ all and and hangars used to cover up every type of agent, the British the German rearmament scheme. Government rely upon tried ser- The greatest feat in the his- tory of the British Secret Ser- vice was its great round-up of 1914 which prevented the German General Staff from hearing of the arrival in France of Sir John French and his expeditionary force.
dressing shop of fifty-one-year- GRIN AND BEAR IT
since Mr. Neville Cham-old Mrs. Jessie Jordan, has hit!
berlain demonstrated what can be achieved in international affaira by a policy of peaceful negotiation.
That is a lesson which the world seems in danger of for- getting.
Outspoken Oswald Pirow, speaking in London yesterday, reminded us of this.
He predicted that unless Д complete change in prospects occurs within the next month or two, tension will reach breaking point by next spring.
The drift into war is based solely on psychological factors. It is this psychological factor the diplomats have got to break, otherwise the vicious cir- clo of re-armament that has de- veloped as a result of it will become a vortex that will awal- low civilisation.
the front page in the way a spy trial does every few years.
Yet as long as there is a re- armament race nations will con- tinue to back espionage with some hundreds of thousands of pounds each year,
THE estimated cost to Britain, this year, for this particular form of service is £450,000, but the precautionary | measures made necessary by the crisis advanced this amount by something like £1,000,000. In 1934. the total cost was £180,- 000.
In the world. as it is, it may unfortunately be necessary even
If the world will GET TO- GETHER, as France and Ger- many have got together, peace may be assured,
Undoubtedly, and unhappily, nations aro drifting apart much more rapidly to-day than they were a year ago.
By Lichty German agents in
"Sign this release firmt! It's just to protect the department against lawsuits in case I drop you or something}"
This triumph was engineered by the military section of the Secret Service, which has its permanent home on the second floor of the War Office. Experts in room 40B at the Admiralty, the other nervo centre of the Service, might, if they wero allowed to, claim this distinction for those of their staff who broke the U-boat blockade.
The War Office section scored again when they supplied the first clue which led to this pro- sent exposure of the German spy net-work in the United States. They purposely delayed the ar- rest of Mrs. Jessie Jordan from November 1987 until March this year, when G-man Leon Turrou had traced in America the per- sons who were transmitting their Information to Germany through Mrs, Jordan's hairdressing par- lour,
Mrs. Jordan was already being watched by M.I.5 before she aroused the suspicions of a ship ping manager who hoticed that though poorly dressed she went eight times from Dundee to (Continued on Page 11.)
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