SPY WARNED AT CARDS

Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 9

SPY WARNED AT CARDS

An Ambassador’s salary is befflJJ earned by a certain man _by merely travelling about unobtrusively from capital to capital moving in international circles and earns every centime of his pay (declares the ‘London Weekly Dispatch ’). During the war Scotland Yard came into touch with him and ho served a term of imprisonment. Since that time the doors of Britain have been bolted against him, but with this exception his hunting ground is the whole of Europe. He will he in Romo one week, in Berlin or Amsterdam the next. In times of “ restlessness ” you may count on his being in Spain or Portugal. Th» French attach the utmost value to his renorts.

In these post-war days, when every country is making specialised investigations into aviation, poison gases, and other implements of war, when experts in naval design, both of warships and submarines, are constantly striving for innovations and improvements, iho international spy finds plenty to keep him busy. Large sums of_ money are paid by “Rod” organisations to discover the military and naval secrets of every important country in tho world—a fact which is proved by the recent revelations of “Red” espionage in China. The modern spy is a master of his art—for it is an art. lie has profited liy the lessons taught him between 1914 and 1918, To-day he is more active and more cunningly dangerous than over he was, and, what is more, he him self is an expert in the subject about which he extracts intelligence. Britain's Secret Service has kept pace with tho times, and although few cases attain any publicity, tho number of foreign spies, who are conducted to a Channel port, with instructions never to set foot in Britain again, would prove surprising. One—a Russian, who had been educated in England, sprite English fluently, and was welcomed in many of the best houses —was recently told that it would save a lot of trouble and exnense if he moved to more hospitable shores within forty-eight hours. The advice was given to him at tho conclusion of a game of bridge by one of his opponents, who holds a high position in the diplomatic service. The spy packed up his baggage and left early the next morning for Paris, whence he took the trouble to send a_ telegram to the 01811 who had given him the hint*