ACTIVITIES OF SPY

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 103, 25 January 1933, Page 7

ACTIVITIES OF SPY

Putting Bombs in Ships WORK DURING WAR On the top floor of a London apartment house near Paddington railway station, a tall, leanly-built German with close-cropped grey hair sits writing for hours on- end. He is Captain F. von Rintelen, whose chief occupation during the war was putting incendiary bombs in ships leaving New York with supplies for the Allies. He has gone to London to write a book about it. A sinister reputation was built.round Captain von Rintelen’s activities during the war. He was described as a cunning fiend who had baffled the keenest brains of the British Secret Service. ' He is an exceedingly jolly person—talkative, but. not boastful. "I was just a. little mischief-maker,” he said with a chuckle to a “Sunday Express” representative recently. “My job was to delay the transport of supplies for Russia, and I did iti with my little fire bombs. I was caught and was sent to an American prison for four years. My work irritated the British Secret Service, but it was comparatively a small matter.” Then Captain Rintelen related how, posing as “E. Gibbons,” a British importer, lie had placed his bombs in (lie holds of 32 vessels. “My activities never ..caused, a death,” he said. •‘Three Or four of the boats were sunk but no lives'were lost.” / The interviewer interrupted: “But I thought, you were the master brain behind all German espionage in the United States. t. is said that you took orders from the Kaiser himself.” “Master fiddlesticksretorted Captain Rintelen. "I never spoke to the Kaiser in my life. I just carried on with my work. My success was mainly due to bluff. How I bluffed everybody in New York! Ha! ha! ha! “My work was stopped after live months, but I di£l my bit rather well.”