THE CAPTAIN AND CUPID.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17080, 8 July 1926, Page 7

THE CAPTAIN AND CUPID.

HOW THE GERMANS WERE OUT-’ WITTED. While Sir Guy Gaunt —then Ca-ptain. Gaunt—was at 'Washington, the Germans had a singularly efficient spy system, and were doing a good deal of harm with their propaganda. The United States Government found them so difficult to cope with that, althongh the United States was then neutral, they allowed the British Secret Service full powers and every facility to run the Germans to earth, which they eventually did. Strange things happened. A Captain von Pa pen was one of the chief -conspirators. The _ British managed to introduce a girl typiste into his ofiice. She was attractive, and the captain was fond of the ladies. The. girl had her instructions, and she led the gallant captain along the primrose paths of dalliance. News had come to the British that certain documents were to be sent to Germany. Among them were lists of Germans and GermanAmericans engaged in propaganda work and espionage in the States. The papers were most incriminating. The gul was told to look out for the box containing these papers. Flirting with the captain, she seated herself upon the l)ox. Flattered, he sat beside her, and taking a piece of reel chalk, she drew two hearts on the lid. Not to- bb outdone, the gallant Teuton transfixed them with an. arrow. She sent a message to her employers to look for a bax with two hearts and an arrow! The ship was stopped .at sea- by a British cruiserand the marked box removed. The papers within were of such value that they led to the arjest of practically all the ringleaders among the* conspirators) in the United