GERMAN SPIES.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 13374, 16 March 1909, Page 6

GERMAN SPIES.

Major A. J. Roed, eecretary W Perthshire of tho Primrose League," > made some remarkable revelations re* eojitly at a Unionist luoeting at Blackford (.says the "Standard -, ). Referring to the allocations regarding the »©• - l tivity of German snips at Kosyth, h* stated that to our Intelligence Department I hero had recently been rovcalea the organisation and functions of tie sp.oiai department of the German >-ocret police operating in this country. Tlieir agent?, he wort* divided i»- j to two divisions. The first comprised fixed ajjonts or ''k'tter boxes,' as they , were termed among the spies theffiM?lves, theso being men of various nationalities in all grades of life, fro» lalif>»rt*rf» to merchants, who made re- • ports upon our coast defences, waterworks, railways, stores of provisions, otc. The sc-cond division, consisted 01 « travelling agents, who were sometime , in the t;ji-e oi inonov lenders, or raote , fiftci (Jc-nnan coniniercial trarelw* ~ These directed the work of espionage , and made payments to the fixed age o )*; ' *'< In tho industrial centres of i* ol, "*; I alone there were, he declared, at t"" moment j;o fewer than 1500 P<W*» male and female, in tho employ or «• German Genera! Staif. • It was nor , ".■nerally known that duriuc the P»" ->•_ two yours tlit- whole of the defonoes « Scotland had been secretly i»v*sti»tett « and reported up:.n to IJcihn. Bβ •<»» that the number of Germans refiuJMW- ,^'

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