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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17; 1925.

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ENTHRALLING MODERN

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When reunited stalwarts, One of the indictments fro- jrather preposterously called quently brought against soionoo veterans of the late European is that it is robbing the world of bellicosity, parade these days, it poetry and killing the imagina is not difficult to recall the pic-tion of the world. This is an in- ture of streets autumn-brown dictment which makos. with khaki in a day dull gray scientists amile. For it shows the with war.

chioily that the person bringing But somehow it is not so easy of science.

it la greatly ignorant of the march to recall the inore subtle foors of thoso tines--the fears of spies and It might seem, for example, onemy agents that led you to that the scientist had robbed tho lower your voice in a restaurant world of poetry when ho showed if your waiter happoned to speak that the sun was an object whose with an accent the tinge of size, temperature and com which you couldn't quite deter-position can mine.

bo measured rather than the chariot of a the sky. Greck god being driven through

Those were days when you heard over back fences or across subway aisles that "They shot

But the man who takes tho trou- five spies at Governor's Island ble to look into what tho scientist this morning" or that the British has found out about the sun had polished off three times that will discover that he has, at his Dumber at a single matinee in command material a thousand "the Tower." Most of these tales,times more pootio and dramatio it sooms at this late date, were at than any picture that the qncient toast tish, if not downright tosh. Greoks conjured up.

"There was more nonsense In fact, the astronomer is o talked about spy-shooting than accustomed to digging up facts perhaps anything else in the that stagger the human imagina. war," says. Brigadier General tion that the use of that pliraes John Charteris, C.M.G., D.S.O,, itself has become a bromide in who ought to know, for he was the literature of astronomy. head of military intelligence on the staff of Sir Douglas Haig scientist has done to stimulate, It is possible to see how much the while all the spy hunts were imagination and to bring a now going on.

He is a member of poetry into the world by compar Parliament now, and is in Newing the ancient idea of the uni- York after attending tho Inter-verse with the modern one. parliamentary Union 44 delegate.

The ancient idea was of an "Few spies were shot during ary. It floated upon a great sea. earth which was flat and station-: the war, he adds, "and only to The sky was an actual roof over loast important of them. They it. When it rained, it was be were shot more as a lesson to cause windows had been opened others than because of any fear in this sky to let the waters above of the mon themselves. There the earth fall through. was Lody, for instance, a delight- ful follow and a very good soldier, but thoroughly

The stars

were lights, like)- unintelligent. lampa, hung on this roof over the There was no fear of him. He earth. had been under observation for a Knowledge in other directions long time before he was actually was equally simple and naive. arrested. He was a picturesque Nothing was known, for example, figure, and shooting him probab- of chemical changes or of the still ly frightened off other agents. more wonderful changes which "But the important enemy go on in radioactivo materials. agents weren't disposed of. They Modern science has given us a wero too useful to us alive. Wo globular world, spinning on an simply kept them fully and com-axis and revolving about a sun pletely covored, watched thom which is itself rushing through every minute and used them to space with a speed of more than our own advantage, making sure 12 miles a second. that they were of no use to their employers moanwhile.

"By full use of the deft art of to infinity, in which the stars are is a great sda of other extending | forgery, for example, they could not lamps but groat glowing suns. be rendered harmloss. We could some of them a hundred million intercept their letters to their times the size of our sun. headquarters and so change the

The sky, instead of being a roof,

information they were sending to be full of the magic of chomic- Our own earth has been shown that it was entirely false. And al and biological processes. we could help ourselves to their mail and doctor it so that it con-old poetic ideas. But it supplants It is true that science destroys tained false orders.

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"Few person realize the height thousand times more imaginative. to which forgery rose in the in-

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telligence service. I have in mind

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we carried on his personal and Одо German locomotive official correspondence for six engineor carried messages un- months without its being discov-wittingly for us over a period of Even in letter to his eighteen months. One of our

hoite we were able to inquire agents worked as a cleaner in the THE NEW ROUTE NATIONAL

after little Fritz's sore throat and shopy of a cortain city, Just Aunt Elsa's rheumatism. And his before each day's trip he hid a official business we carried on so code note in a certain part of the well that we even collected his engine. At the other terminal pay. We really forged the man's another agont, also à cleaner,) mind as well as his writing. took it out and sped it to England. "It was not difficult to discover Similarly, messages were sont these agents. Nearly always they inside a valve of a bicycle tuho will give themselves away if giv-fentirely without the knowledge of en half a chance. There is the the postman who rode the bicycle. ense of one man who eluded us. 16

Once with an important mes-

for a time. We picked up his lot-sage we used a crate of anions as fters, mailed from Liverpool, but a carrier. The noto was placed we couldn't catch him. He posted in the centre of one of the onions, them at different pillar boxes each and it was neatly soaled and tine. Finally we decided we placed with hundreds of others in would give him rope and let him the crate and shipped. It would catch himself.

have been a difficult task to find "We instructed post offices in ita task which our mon at the the vicinity to inform all persons other end undertook willingly buyingtuppence-ba'penny stamps

and accomplished successfully. which was required for foreign, On another occasion a message nail, that they would have to was written on an inner layer of sign their names for them in the linen in a shirt. future. That meant nothing. The Often we sent messages to man could have signed his name captured officers in books. We holdly and got away with it.

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"Instead, however, he was very Scott novel printed. Every page norvous when he heard the news but one would be bona fide. On and tried to disguise his writing. that one, in the same type and Next time he went to a small looking to be part of the novel, town sixteen miles away to buy would be his instructions for 3648 WE DONTT WANT TO GET MARRIED This stamps. From that moment escape. we knew our man and after that time. there was no danger from him." "Sometimes we abo sent com-13646

The work of collecting enemy passes to these prisonera to guide information, Genaral. Charteris thom after they had escaped. admits, was a little more difficult. These were hidden in battons of 3593 It was accomplished by a net-coats for they were allowed to work of agents who relayed nows receive clothing. The top of the to a sifting headquarters., Few button unecrowed and out pupped of those agents know the others, the compass."

"The difficulty lay in communi- Such are the stories of the last) cating information rapidly," he war. adds, for in modern warfare it is as Sir Philip Gibbs has remarked. 3623 DON'T PUT THE BLAME ON ME "Now they can be told," useless unless rocoived within But of the next war, if any, Gen- forty-eight hours or so. Wo eral Charteris will not talk. resorted to all sorts of schemes of respects the secret in transmission, some of which were service.

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