GERMANY TO-DAY.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19715, 4 September 1929, Page 15

GERMANY TO-DAY.

EX-SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IMPRESSIONS.

WAR-TIME EXPERIENCES

[THE PRESS Special Serriet.]

AUCKLAND, September 3

Maintaining the traditions of the British Secret Service, although he retired from it several years ago, Mr T. C. Huss, one of the most interesting personalities on the Ulimaroa, which arrived at Auckland to-day from Sydney, is a man of few words. In the course of an eventful life Mr Huss has visited most countries on the globe and has had his share of adventure. "These things are all over and don© with," he said smiling "I cannot see that they would be of any general interest."

Nevertheless, casual snatches of conversation serve to show that Mr Huse has enjoyed a most interesting life. He admits that he is a confirmed globetrotter. His home is at Monte Carlo, but he has residences in other cities. At present he is taking his daughter on a trip round the world and he will be in New Zealand for about three weeks. He will leave Auckland by the Aorangi on her next northward trip and will visit Canada and Alaska before his return to England. Mr Huss was born in England, his father being a Swede and his mother an Italian. He spent his early life in the Argentine and as he is a man of independent means he has been able to indulge his penchant for travel. Not the least-of his accomplishments is the fact that he speaks ten different languages. During the war Mr Huss was engaged in Secret Service work for the British Government, but he will not say much about his experiences. In the earlv part of the war he was returning from Sweden to England with secret dispatches when the Swedish ship on which he was a passenger wa» held up by a German U boat. The Germans searched the vessel and took Mr Huss prisoner. Fortunately, n« was able to get rid of his dispatches. When asked how he managed to get rid of them Mr Huss smiled. "I got rid of them all right." he said. "That was the main thing." For two years Mr Huss was kept as a diplomatic prisoner at the Celle Schloss in Hanover. He had onportunities for studying, to a certain extent, the German reaction to the war, but doe? not talk freely of his experiences there. "After ten vears of peace Europe is still unsettled." Mr Huss said. Uermanv;and France are both recovering rapidly from the war. but there is still the herrditarv spirit of enmity between the two nations. T n dustnally Germany is makinz great progress. There are cordial relations between the employers and workers and the Germans have attempted the colossal task of reconstruction with characteristic thoroughness. Thev are a wonderful people m manv respects and any one who has travelled would support the plea ot Admiral von Tirpitz for co-operation between Great Britain, the United States, and Germany "