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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1988

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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 one of the greatest benefits

could statesmen

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

since Mr. Noville 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, reminded us of this.

He predicted that unless a complete change in prospects occurs within the next month or two, tension will reach breaking point by next spring.

to

The drift into war is based solely on psychological factors. It is this psychological factor the diplomats have got break, otherwise the vicious cir-

cle of re-armament that has do-

veloped as a result of it will become a vortex that will swal- low civilisation.

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.

-Strube in the "Daily Express"

Our

own

are not

spies

bad,

so

come to that

"AR Ministries all

over Europe and Asia watched New where York's spy trial,

espionage had its biggest show-down in twenty years.

by- Percy Hoskins

The general principles of formationTM paldTM for eventually The world war enlisted thou-

in

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

The work is usually dráb, 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-Kalser's prin- cipal spy, used to complain that he was almost invariably kopt short of money. Had it not been for the meanness of the Wilhelmstrasse the German

WHICH country pos-

But apart from the audacious for democratic Governments to spy-ridden country in Europe, espionage service would not have attempt to forgo President have secret funds for the expen- Last year the French authori- collapsed so ingloriously as it did Roosevelt's signature, it showed diture of which they cannot ac- ties convicted more espionage in the early stages of the war. 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 technique.

sesses the best spies? ted that 75 per cent. of the in- the number convicted was 204.

For the amount spent, as com-.... pared with other countries, Bri- sabotage, mailbag robberies for proves to be just rumour or rub- sands of adventurers

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

espionage, killed a good many of 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 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 tious the plot would probably Military Intelligence Department vice.

countries in the employ of the Secret Ser-likely to be. these war-ravaged like the hundreds of other con- No. & 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 tanka.

France is probably the most

This particular scheme, which ¦ ~--~ emanated from the Dundee hair- dressing shop of fifty-one-year- old Mrs. Jessie Jordan, has hit the front page in the way a spy trial does every few years.

Yet as long as there is a re- armament race nationa 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 1984 the total cost was £180,- 000.

In the world as it is, it may. unfortunately be necessary even

near our own or ever

They had not at that time dia- 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 Ser13 vice was its great round-up of

GRIN AND BEAR IT

If the world will GET TO- || GETHER, as France and Ger- many have got together, peace) may be assured.

Undoubtedly, and unhappily, nations are drifting apart much more rapidly to-day than they were a year ago,

By Lichty German agents in 1914 which

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"Sign this release first! It's just to protect the department against laseruite 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 Office. Experts in room 40B at the Admiralty, the other nerve centro of the Service, might, if they allowed to, claim this distinction for those of their staff who broke the U-boat blockade.

were

The War Office section scored again when they supplied the firat clue which led to this pro- sent exposure of the German spy not-work in the United States. Thoy 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- song 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 noticed that though poorly dressed she went · eight times from Dundee to (Continued on Page 11.)