TENTACLES SPREAD.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1016, 8 November 1917, Page 6

TENTACLES SPREAD.

HUNS' MISCHIEF ORGANISERS, j TRAVELLING INCENDIARIES. |n the cil our preoccupation with tie Hun menace aloft, afloat and] ashore, Vfo ought not to lose sight ol its ' dnilomawc tentacles, writes F. U • Wife ■in M j e i);i ' ;lv M:ul - ' hest ' ''"'' now being spwad with quit... particular oiiergv in a™ Norway. Events haviiig.lHit an abrupt end m German schemes fc t- 1 "' Ear West and the Far East—in tlw* I'»Hctl States and China—thev havv booh, promptly resumed in the Ear North l».v plotters who until a few .months' ago were intriguing for Raiser aikl J'atnerLan'd in Washington and Peki'MK. I refer to Count von RemsioHl. "who is now ''co-ordinating' Gcrmcn iutorests at Stockholm, and to Admiral \-\rn Hintze. late .Minister to China. wto ha.s taken charge at Christiana. \ oci ilintze followed the Berlin Foreign [>\- (Wh bomb shipment to Norway a lew*, days alter ' 'diplomatic courier" Uan-i teiifel's arrest : roil Bernstorff has " ,,,1! 1 in Sweden lor some weeks. They, have! now joined hands across the .Scandinavian peninsula.- I Icnow them,i ,aiid the.ii- special talents well, and' ' | s.iv advisedly that thoy will hear i\v\ 'closest wntehing which Allied vigilance \ lis capable of hestowing upon them.V ■ Trouble and turmoil have followed in ] .their wake, during the past ton years as inevitably as night succeeded Clay. Tho-v have never been assigned to m;>- , Isious which did not hide wmie dar> Prussian strategem with consequenceeventually disastrous to the countries M which thev blighted with their tlomieie. Admiral von Hintze is. it possible.! even it more consummate onganiser oJ J mischief than Bernstorff. His succes-j sivc places of abode since IflOo s]>w<M for themselves-llussia, Mexico and China. Revolutions would seem in noj hh ioi'ie. Kor many.years the Houses (of Jlohenzollern and Romanol! maintained a remarkable system ol 'Vpoisonal adjutants" atVaeh other s Courts. Nominallv only courtiers who nounced about" with' the Sovereigns on spectacular occasions a-i members ot the Imperial entourages, the.se "adjutants , were ill rcaHtv super-Ambassador* in Berlin and Ptftrograd Uioir missions were to spy out ceaselessly .hat. strange, land winch help's, a throne. In t* case of the Kaiser's emissary a tin Winter Palace and leai-skua, feelo wo hav be sure thai I-a' work was do e witli vaunted Prussiaii Gr.mdbchkeit (thoroughness). , ~. . ~ Can anybody tln'.nti-thai t'his (.crmau "Gruudlidikcit" will forget .-(...country as important in supplies shipping, ami men as Australia is? Their v/hy a.o thousands of the potential assistants oi Rerustorlf. Hintze and Co. Icll tfJ Jaigc in id,- Commonwealth, and noO interned? THE BOMBS IN NORWAY. HOW (OXKKDKBATK CONFESSED. With what elaboration the Hun makes his plots for the destruction ol shipping is revealed by the slor) ol the German conspiracy against vessels in Norwegian ports. The Norwegian new.-, paper Dagbladet mode the revelation, after a number ol Norwegian vessels had been mysteriously destroyed or wrecked. A man of Finnish descent, serving m| the "Finnish Brigade" in Germany. was selected as an agent, and given special instructions in Berlin, lie was particularly trained in supervising the shipping oi' passengers' luggage to Nor- . way and Sweden, and in this oihee he . learned how to ship infernal machines to Stockholm. When rewards were offered in Norway for discovery ol tin- ineaii.s and n ah ds If. wind Vji .vfgi in tihip's -vnv being destroyed, this Finn, who at the time"was ill in hospital, wrote to the Norwegian Shipping Gazette ottering information. Alter his recovery lie went to one ol the Allied Legation.- a! . Stockholm, and revealed most ol the L story. He named agents who were i working in Norway, and gave the loeaI tion of the store where the bombs were kept. A tran was set. The chid German ~ agent iii Stockholiii was informed ny I the Finn that the latter was willing to place, an infernal machine on hoard a steamer "on which his brothcr-Mi-law was working." The bombs for this .purpose were, given from the store" at , Christiana: the police ascertained by what means they had hem brought a thither; and the plot was wholly revealf ed and defeated.

The most Curious feature ol wartime politics ii to be found in connection with the Legislative Assembly o) Saskatchewan, lor which three members were to.be elected last month to represent those men of the province at present at the war. The elections were (says the Press) to lake place in England and at the front?, and unly men who had Nerved in Britain, France or Belgium for at least six months were eligible as candidates. According tu a report ol' September LUth, there were already fifteen candidates in the held. namely, two lieutenant-colonels, une major, four captains, one lieutenant, two quartermaster-sergeants, one sergeant, 'two privates, and one sapper. There is something Gilbertian in the idea of colonels, majors and other officers seeking the votes ol their command, and being opposed in their political campaign by non-commissioned olficers and privities, to sav nothing of the sapper. It is a situation which would have created no Mirpri.se it it had happened in Russia, where committees of soldiers Mt in judgment on i-ho orders of their olliccrs, but it is not just, what one would have expected even among the democracy of the Dominion-. The experiment will be Matched with interest by other oversea Dominions, whieli may he contemplating a general election during the war.