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In view of the anxiety naturally folt by the public with regard to the system of espionage on which Germany has placed so much reliance and to which attention has been directed by recent reports from the seat of war, it may be well to state briefly the steps which the Home Office, acting on behalf of the Admiralty and War Office, has taken to deal with the matfer in this country. The secrecy which it has hitherto been desirable in the public interest to observe on certain points cannot any longer be maintained owing to the evidence which it is necessary to produce in casos against spies that are now pending. A

It was clearly ascertained five or six years ago that the Germans were making great efforts to establish a system of espionage in this country, and in order to trace and thwart these efforts a Special Intelligence Department was established by the Admiralty and the War Office which has ever since acted in the closest co-operation with the Home Office and Metropolitan Police and the principal provincial police forces. In 1911, by the passing of the Official Secrets Act, 1911, the law with regard to espionage, which had hitherto been confused and defective, was put on a clear basis and extended. as to embrace every possible mud of obtaining and conveying to the enomy information which might be useful in

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reside have been cleared by the police of the Austrians, with. ・and Germans exception of a few persons, chiefly women and and children, whose antendents are such that the local Chief Constable, in whose discretion the matter is vested by the Order, considered that all ground for suspicion was precluded At the same time the Post Office, acting under the powers given them by the Win less Telegraphy Acts, dimantled all private wireless stations; and they established a special system of wireless detection by which any station actually used for the transmission of messages from this country could be discovered. police have co-operated successfully in this matter with the Post Office.

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Among sher measures which have been taken has been the registration, by order of the Secretary of State made under the Defence of the Realin Act, of all persons. keeping carrier or homing pigeons. The importation and the conveyance by rail of these birds have beer prohibited: and, with the valuable assistance of the National Homing Union, a system of registration has been extended to the whole of the United Kingdom, and treasures bave been taken which, it is believed, will be effective to prevent the possibility of any birds being kept in this country which would is to the Continent. DUTT'S

Another matter which has engaged the closest attention of the police has been the possibility of conspiracies to commit outrage. No trace whatever has been discovered of any such conspiracy, and no

know that their movements were watched dealing with espionage were given by the by any Alien-not even telegraph wires?

outrage of any sort has yet been committed" having been maliciously cut since the beginning of the war. Nevertheless it has been necessary to bear in mind the possibility that such a secret conspiracy might exist or might be formed among Alien enemies resident in this country,

The Special Intelligencs Department, supported by all the means which could be placed at its dispost by the Home Secretary, was able in three years, from 1811 to 1014, to discover the ramifications of the German Secret Service in Eng and In spite of dormous efforts and lavish expenditure of money by the enemy, little valuable information passed into their hands The agents, of whose identity knowledge was obtained by the Special Intelligence Department, were watched and shadowed without in general taking, any hostile attion or allowing them to

New and still more stringent powers for When, however, any actual step was taken Defence of the Realm Aci, which was to convey plans or documents of import passed by the Home Secretary through ance from the country to Germany, the the House of Commons and received the spy was arrested and in such case evidence Royal Assout on August 8th. Orders in sufficient to secure his conviction was Council have been made under this Act usually found in his possession. Proceed which prohibit, in the widest possible ings under the Official Secrets Acts were term, any attempt on the part either of Accordingly, immediately after the com- taken by the Director of Public Prosecu Aliens or of British subjects to commusi-mencement of hostilities, rigorous search tions, and in six case sentences were passed varying from 1 months to six cato any information which is calculated was made by the polios in the houses of years' penal servitude. At the same time to be or might be directly or indirectly Germans and. Austrias, in their clubs, steps were taken to mark down and keep useful to an enemy and any permou and in all places where they were likely under observation all the agents known offending against this prohibition is to resort. In a few cas individuals were to be engaged in this traffic, so that when liable to he tried by Courtmartial and found who were in posession of a gun or sentenced to penal servitude for life. The pistol which they had not declared, and any necessity arose the police might lay effect of these Orders is to make espionage in one or two cases there were small hands on them at once; and accordingly on the 4th August, before the Declaration a military offence Power is given bith collections of ancient Grearms, and in such of War, instructions were given by the to the police and to the military authori- cases the offenders have been prosecuted Home Secretary for the arrest of 20 known ties to arrest without a warrant my and punished; but no store of elective spies, and all were arrested. This figure person whose behaviour is such as to give arintill less ray bonds or instruments does not cover a large number (upwards rise to suspicion, and any person so of destruction--havo so far been dis of 200) who were noted as under suspicion arrested by the police would be handed covered. From the beginning any or to be kept under special observation over to tlie military anthorities for trial Germans or Austriane who were deemed The great majority of these were interned by Court-martial Only in the event of by the polics to be likely to be dangerous the military authorities holding that there were apprehended, handed over to the at or soon after the declaration of war.

is no prima facie case of espionage or any military authorities, end detained sa None of the men arrested in pursuance other offence triable by military law is a prisoners of war; and, as soon as the of the orders issued on August 4th has yet

prisoner handed back to the evil military authorities desired it, general been brought to trial, partly because the authorities to consider whether he should action was taken to arrest and hand over officers whose evidence would have been be charged with failing to register or with to military custody Germans of military required were engaged in urgent duties in any other offence under the Aliens Restric age, subject to exceptions which have properly been made, on grounds of policy. the early days of the war, but mainly tion Act.

About 9,900 Germans and Austrians of because the prosecution by disclosing the

The present position is therefore that military age have been so arrested and means adopted to track out the spies and espionage has been made by statute a are beld as prisoners of war in detention prove their guilt would have hampered he Intelligence Department in its further military offence tripble by Court-martial. efforts. They were and still are held as It tried under the Defence of the Realm camps, and among then are included those. prisoners under the powers given to the Act the maximum punishment is penal are regarded by the police as likely Secretary of State by the Aliens Restric servitude for life; but if dealt with any possible event to take part in any tion Act. One of them, however, who outside that Act as a war crime the outbreak of disorder or incendiarism. established a claim to British nationality, punishment of death can be inflicted. has now been formally charged; and, the reasons for delay no longer existing, it is a matter for consideration whether the same course, should row be taken with regard to some of the other known spies.

ORGANIZATION BROKEN UP,

From 23h November to 4th December, 1914. Although this action taken on August

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At the present moment one case is pend ing in which a person charged with attempting to convey information to the enemy is now awaiting his trial by Court-martial; but in no other case has any clear trace been discovered of any. attempt to convey information to the enemy, and there is good reason to believe that the spy organization rushed at the outbreak of the war has not been reestablished.

How completely that grstem had been suppressed in the early days of the war is clear from the fact disclosed in a German Army Order that on the 21st of August the German Military Commanders were still ignorant of the dispatch and movements of the British Expeditionary Forco, although these had been known for many days to a large number of people in this country«

THE KELPING OF PIGEONS. The fact, however, of this initial success does not prevent the possibility of fresh attempts at espionage bling made, and there is no relaxation in the efforts of the Intelligence Department and of the police to watch and detect any altempts in this direction. In carrying out their cuties the military and police authorities would expect that persons having information of cases of suspected espionage would On August 5th, the Alions Restriction communicate the grounds of the suspicion Act was passed, and within an hour of to local military authority or to the local its passing en Order in Council was made police, who are in direct communication which gave the Home Office and the police with the Special Intelligence Department, stringent powers to deal with Aliens, and instead of causing unnecessary public especially enemy Aliens, who guder this alarm and possibly giving warning to the Act could be stopped from entering or pies by public speeches or letters to the leaving the United Kingdom, and were Pres. In cases in which the Director of prohibited while residing in this country Public Prosecutions has appealed to the from buying in their possesion any authors of such letters and speeches to rivireless or signalling, apparatus of any supply him with the evidence upon which Find, or any carriewor herding pigeons, their statements were bounded in order Under this Order all the districte where that he might consider the question of the Admiralty or War Office considered it prosecuting the offender, no evidence of undesirable that enemy Aliens shonld any value has as yet been forthcoming.

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