1938-12-08 — Page 34

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938.

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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.

Lasting accord

between

France and Germany would be

of

to

one of the greatest benefits

could present statesmen civilisation. But civilisation, remembering past professions 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 în international relations which

other countries will follow.

Pirow Shows A Way

Stemme

W

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.

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 apy trial, where espionage had its biggest show-down in twenty years.

-by- Percy

Hoskins

vants, usually ex-military or naval officers who are linguista.

The work is usually drab, and at a rate of pay which would not excito 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

WHICH Country pо8-

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- tica convicted the nations no new methods or count publicly and in detail. suspects than in the whole ten Especially as it must be admit- years before the war. In 1936

sesses the best spies? technique,

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-

of adventurers in pared with other countries, Bri- sabotage, mailbag robberies for proves to be just rumour or rub- sands

claim first place, al- bish. plans, "agony" codes, and—at a

espionage, killed a good many of tain can Secret Service work in Spain them, enriched or ruined a few, very badly in 1985, when they though our agents slipped up push-kidnapping, were all

and China at the moment, how- and conferred some enduring told Mr. Stanley Baldwin that there just as they were in 1914.

ever, must save Britain some- fame on a mere handful. To- If it had been little less ambi- thing like £200,000, for from day, there are very few civilians the German air power was no where near our own or ever countries in the employ of the Secret Ser- likely to be. tious the plot would probably Military Intelligence Department vice.

war-ravaged like the hundreds of other con- No. 5 has been able to obtain

They had not at that time dis- ceived in the cause of secret ser- very easily plans of new Ger- UNLIKE the Germans, covered the underground works vice each year-never have been man, Italian and Russian guns,

who employ all and and hangars used to cover up discovered.

airplanes and tanks.

every type of agent, the British the German rearmament scheme. France is probably the most Government rely upon tried ser-

This particular scheme, which emanated from the Dundee hair-

IT IS BUT a matter of weeks dressing shop of fifty-one-year-

since Mr. Neville Cham- berlain demonstrated what can be achieved in international affairs 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, rominded us of this.

Ho predicted that unless a 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 paychological factor

the diplomats have got to break, otherwise the vicious cir- clo of re-armament that has do-

old Mrs. Jessie Jordan, has hit the front page in the way a apy 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 Franco and Gor- many have got together, perce may be assured.

Undoubtedly, and unhappily. veloped as a result of it will nations are drifting apart much

become a vortex that will swal- low civilisation.

more rapidly to-day than they were a year ago.

these

I

GRIN AND BEAR IT

The greatest feat in the his- tory of the British Socrot Ser- vice was its great round-up of

By Lichty German agents in 1914 which

"Sign this release first! It's just to protect the department against lawsuits in case I drop you or something?"

prevented the German General Staff from hearing of the arrival in France of Sir John French and his expeditionary force.

This triumph was engineered by the military section of the Secret Service, which has its |permanent home on the second floor of the War Offlec. Experts in room 40B at the Admiralty, the other nerve 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 1937 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 sho aroused the suspicione of a ship- ping manager who noticed that though poorly dressed she went eight times from Dundee to (Continued on Page 11.)