Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1912 — GERMANY'S ESPIONAGE [ARTICLE]

GERMANY'S ESPIONAGE

,v / ;;L „ - EVERY VISITOR IS UNDER THE WATCH OF THE POLICE. He Must Give Full Account of Himself and Hid Intentions—Use of Red Ink Brings Serious Consequences. / ' .• '4 . The recent conviction as a spy of the English lawyer, Mr. Btewart, made ft clear to everyone who read the socount of the trial that German law is very different to our own. Hew different it requires a visit to Germany to realize. Before you have stayed in a German town for a week a policeman calls. He politely inquires your age, your nationality, and how long you intend to stay. Your answer be notes down in one of tbo small library of little books which he carries with him. ' If you take a house in Germany you must notify the police; if you move to another you must comply with the same formalfty. If you hire a servant girl you must purchase a yellow blank, and report the fact. When she leaves a greed form must be sent to the police stating why she is dismissed. If you use the telephone in Germany you must he careful how you speak to the employes. At Carlsruhe a gentleman, impatient at long delay, called out: "Are you asleep, miss?” and was fined five dollars for offering "an unjustifiable insult” Whatever you do, be careful not to use red ink when writing to the police. The president of the Social Democrat society at Hetscheudorf did so, and was summoned and fined for "inciting the representatives of law to break the peace.” In all small matters you must exercise the greatest care, so as not to run the risk of Insulting other people. A certain count von Friedland had a quarrel with an insurance agent named Joseph Bock. /The eount presently summoned the latter, because, as he alleged, the agent stared at him whenever they met, in a manner which "revealed hate and contempt.” Poor Bock was found guilty and fined flO, with the alternative of ten days’ Imprisonment. A Berlin Iron worker named Wllleck got Into trouble the other day in a maimer Incredible to English Ideas. He was watching a fat policeman chase a riotous merrymaker, and the vision of the former’s stout legs twinkling along amused him so that he burst Into a fit of laughter. This was construed as an Indictable offense —serious scandal—and the unhappy Willeck went to prison for a week. The proprietor of a widely-known patent medicine took a quarter of a column in a German newspaper. The publisher was summoned and fined for “bombastic advertisement” It was considered that the advertisement was too long and that it irritated the readers. A German soldier was recently hahled up for the serious offense of failing to salute his officer in the street For this the punishment la two months' imprisonment He pleaded that he was short-sighted, and at once was sentenced to an extra fortnight’# confinement for failing to report his condition. —London Tit-Bits.