ESPIONAGE SCARE DANGERS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 72, 21 September 1912, Page 10

ESPIONAGE SCARE DANGERS

SPY "NETWORK" IN GERMANY. In pointing out the dangai to peace involved by espionage scares, the Daily Chronicle says : "Public opinion in Germany is peculiarly uneasy on the subject, because serious espionage trials have of late been much commoner there than in any other country. Thus, if we take trials in which convictions on important charges have been obtained and substantial sentences inflicted^ we shall find that in 1911 and 1912 so far only three such trials have taken place in this country, while twelve have taken place in Germany. In the three British cases the spies were acting in German interests; in six of the German cases they were acting in British interests. "Moreover, some of these last were cases specially calculated to excite opinion; in the Sohulz case, for instance, where five separate convictions were obtained, the theory of the prosecution pointed to an enormous network of British spies on the German coast. Whether there really is any more British spying in Germany than German in England, or whether the Germans are merely more vigilant in arresting oifenders, must be matter for curious speculation. What the German notices is that of the spies whom his Government < captures far more serve Great Britain than serve either France or Russia, though serious espionage on behalf of these countries also does exist, and the number of German convictions of French or Russian snies is about equal to the number of Bntish convictions of German spies."