GERMAN SECRET SERVICE RE-APPEARING.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1919, Page 7

GERMAN SECRET SERVICE RE-APPEARING.

ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA. (London Times' Correspondent.) Paris, May 23. The Geneva correspondent of Le Temps has had very interesting conversations with qualified persous on tha subject of German .propaganda In Switzerland. You know (be writes) how well organised the espionage of the Central Empires was. Numerous sensational arrests and trials have shown the direct lelations of secret organisations with Major von Bismarck, the German military attache at Berne. If the campaign so energetically carried on by a few Swiss politicians, such as M. Frederic de Rabours, Deputy for Geneva to the National Couneil, has largely contributed to the cleansing of the country, the cessation of hostilities has also caused a number of undesirables to quit Swiss territory. Now the secret services of Germany are resuming business under a new form. To-day, the ex-agents of German espionage are almost openly at work on varioiy kinds of propaganda against the Entente countries. A very important anti-British service has, for instance, just been discovered. Pamphlets upon which no author's or printer's name appears are circulated under cover, and are even sent to the offices of important Swiss journals. One of these pamphlets, entitled "Notes on Ireland," seeks to provp that England does not apply the principle of the autonomy of The Swiss police recently seized at Vn\ey a quantity of these tracts, the Germanic origin of which is evident,

Another significant fact is the return of some of the, known chiefs of the secret services. Theae men, so wary that Swiss police can hardly catch them redhanded, have resumed their old habits. A few weeks ago a French daily noted the presence of Lieutenant Theodore Schloss in Geneva. Schloss at once disappeared for some weeks. lam assured that Lieutenant Schloss, who during the war was the chief of the agents whose business it was to enrol people to send them to France, has again been seen here in company of a Belgiiin who is also in the pay of Germany. At tha present moment Schloss is directing an anarching propaganda service in Italy, the headquarters of which is at .Lugano.