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THE MYSTERY, OF

HARI DANCING GIRL'S CAREER AS

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In a recent issue appeared a brief from London stating that * Mata Hari," a well-known dancer, had breu shot in Paris for espionage, The correspondent in the French capital of the New York World recently sent to his journal a long account of the career of this women, from which we make the following extracts:-

Now a tank of the early type was 35 feet long, 12 feet, wide and 9 feet high, and the caterpillar tractors rumbling under a terrible din, attracting the atten tion of people for great distances around. And because of the weight of the tanks they could not be moyed by rail; but had to travel under their own power. It was impossible, therefore, wholly to hide the monsters frem inhabitants of that parti- cular French port, and from the towns- Eye-of-the Morning is English for people in the French villages, through the Javanese pet name Mata Hari which they passed on the way to the the stage name of Mme Marguerite Somine front. Of course, most of the Gertrude Zella Macleod, first known, in travelling was done by night, and tar- “Paris, and latterly all over Europe, as a | paulins were always draped over the

dancer whose specialty was the represent armed and armoured behemoths, ing of Far Eastern legends and fables according to terpsichorean art.

THE ENGLISH TANIS

One of the most important and spectacular events of the only Allied offensive of 1916 was the appearance in action of the newest engine of war the so-called tank. Ag with any innovation, the suceres of the tank depended largely on the element of surprise attaching to its debut. Therefore, the strictest secrecy marked the planning, the construction, and the shipment of tanks to the Somme, where they first went into action. ------

But, of course, a certain number of people in England and in France knew about the banks on crème-de-menthes

sa they were hist called in Paris, because each one is named, like a ship, and onc called after the famous groen liqueur was the first scent and written up by French newspaper inen.

It took a good many months to cut struct the first fleet, and a good many works to train the first crews to stand the jerky, rolling, pitching, lumbering gait of the mobile forts. During that period the circle of people in the know in ercased and Mata Hari was one of those. who board about the, curious land ships

But there did not seem to be much necessity for precautions, as nearly all. of the inhabitants of the districts through which the tanks passed remained stolidly right there where they were. Few in- Bleed were a lucky as Mata Hat and able to get safe conducts to travel about. But then, few were as beautiful and allur

gas the dancer.

Mata Hari remained in the French port for a week. She strolled about the town. at night and explained to the hotel ekerks that she could not sleep without taking a certain amount of exercise before re- tiring, and that after being accustomed to gay life in Paris, she was not tired until after midnight.

A VISIT TO SPAIN.

It was on June lat, exactly a month before Generals Haig and Foch began their drive astride the Somme, that Mata Hari returned to Paris. And the first thing she did was to apply for a vise on her passport permitting her to go to Spain. San Sebastian was the place she mentioned, as she explained she wished to attend the horse-reces there. Her papers were stamped and scaled and she left. almost immediately for the fashionable winter resort in the south. MAR

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UNHAPPY THIN FOLKS.

One of the readers of a popular health Madrid, Spain, and Nauen, Germany, Journal wrote to the editor, asking why she was peevish, blue and discontented, are in constant wireless communication. There are other radio stations, privately and his answer will interest all thip.

people. owned in Spain, which can flash messages y dear reader," he said, when to Germany, according to Allied intel you write that you are thin and do not igenon officers who have investigated weigh what you should, you have given And, of course, there are innumerable me the rest cause of your unhappy feel German agents, spies and propaganda lugs. If you only had a reserve of lat disseminators infesting the land of the this would give a quieting and reassuring influence to the vital forces, and you Dons. anuary, Secret Service reports disclose the fact would then be happy, contented and

optimistic realize that

It is rumoured that a Deputy in advertently gave her the first informa tion about tanks. And the rumour is strengthened by the fact that Mati-Bari had plenty of coal for her apartment during the fuel famine last winter. That in itself is prout enough to everybody of her intimacy with some high official, as few people short of Deputies had influence enough to obtain a hundredweight of coal during the bitter months of February sad March.

In any event, Mata Hari learned vaguely of tanks early in 1916, when the Krupp guns of the Crown Prince were CO., LTD. daily booming the ror and seater to Verdun in that terrific struggle which was to mark the turning point of the war, Mata Hari also learned that the tanks were being constructed in England and would be shipped to France vid. certain ports and she got the uses of the ports

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A VISIT TO HOLLAND.

The Mata Hari decided ebe must re turn to her native country, Holland. For with all her Javanese appellation, she was born near Kotterdam, although it is trae she went to the Dutch East Indies when a tiny child. She gave us reason for going to Holland the fact that she bad married Dutch army officer with Scotch name-Capt. Macleod, that they had divorced, and she wished to arrange a settlement of their common property * Her passports were made obt, and safe conducts granted for a trip to Helland, vid England, of course, as that fi the only way to get into the Low Countries from the Allied side

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pany at San Sebastian race-track with a that Muta Hari was seen much in comtribution of fat on the body and man long looked upon with suspicion bys makes all the difference between the French Government. He was a fre- quent caller upon ber at the hotel where beauty and ugliness, and you envy yong abe stopped, and it was reported that he mude good many of the big bets the placed on horses that did not materialise at winners

Soon Mata Hari came back to Paris and the apartment near the Bois de Boulogne, And once more the limousine owned by the individual whom rumour has branded a Deputy, began rolling up to her door twice a week and sometimes oftener

WHY THE GERMANS WERE PREPARED.

Then came the simultaneous Franco- British offensive at the Somme. Teoks went into action for the first time, and according to General Hal's official communiqué his land-ships achieved satisfactory results."

to Ther tanks did rebiové antísfactory re- suits. More than that, they revolutionised offensive tactics on favourable terrain by advancing immune against rifle and machine-gun bullets, or even against light trench mortars whose shells exploded at a touch. They smashed by sheer weight strong points and machine-gun emplacements. They straddled trenches, enfilading the occupants and crushed in entrances to dugouts A

Mata Hari went to England. But be Tore she proceeded to Holland, ng Secret Service agents of the British and French Governments ascertained, she visited a certain English manufacturing city, where, it so happened, the se

the tanks were being constructed.

Evidently Mata Hari didn't find out of action and not by siray shells hurt.

But several of the truks were put out much about the tanks there, na not a maning forward from far behind the German passed through the gates of the high brick wall which surrounded the factory during the six months that the first fleet'' was building. The men were boarded, enter tained, and employed there continually Every letter they sent out of received was THE ROYAL subjected to the most rigorous censorship The dancer proceeded to Rotterdam Investigation there has since proved to

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to settle with any ons, and further that Instantly it became evident that the Capt. MacLeod of the Titch Army was enemy had become aware of what was known among his fellow officers a prom store for him and had constructed an nouncedly pro-German.

“anti tank” gun. And when the booty in the captured German positions was RELATIONS WITH AN ENGLISH OFFICER examined, the British found they had Soon Mata Hari returned to Paris She several good specimens of Krupp s new- was seen at the Cafe de Paris spd at cet weapon. Several German officers of Maxim's, and at Armenonville in the higher rank taken prisoner confirmed Bois with an English officer who wore on suspicion by explaining they had re the lapel of his collar, as insignia depot ceived descriptions of the tanky several ing his branch of service, a little twisted weeks before, and had been instructed brass dragon. Months later, when more how to combat them, of these badges were seen on British officers passing through Paris, it became known that the dragon was one of the official insignia denoting service with the tanks

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In due course Mata Hari was arrested on a charge of espionage and tried by a court-martial presided over by Colonel Sempron. The decision of the Court was that accused aid wilfully and malici- ouily and against the interest of La Patrie, communicate information of mili. tary value to the enemy concerning our offensive of the summer of 1918.” The woman appealed against the finding of the Court, but the sentence of death was In May 1918 a little more than a confirmed month before the Somme off neivesepanci

Mata-Herz sported a new hauble soon after taking up with the Englishman-a jewelled replica of his gold insignia-her dragon had real emeralds for eyes and a carrot-shaped ruby for a tongue from its opened langs -

and tanks were first used, Mata Hari AP FLAMING BULLETS. peared before the police magistrate of

her district and requested a safe conduct

to visit a certain port in France The It is reported that the British batta rason she gave was that her fiance an lions which captured Shrewsbury Forcet English officer was seriously wounded and Bulgar Wood, to the east of the and in hospital there. He had at for former place in an attack at the end of her to came to bee him. Perhaps they September experienced a new kind of Would be married as his death bed if he German frightfulness. The advancing could not recover, she volunteered, troops are said to have been fired on with ? dabbing at her eyes with a lace handker men's clothing are and in several in- 4 flaming bullete These bullets set the

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