Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 43, Number 74, 6 February 1918 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 1918.

TRAGEDIES OF GERMAN SPIES ARE REVEALED

"Are Never Allowed to spend Their Declining Days in Peace. (London Tit Bits.) The secret' service of practically every great power embroiled In this war Is at present excited over the fate of Hella von Wamberg. Hella has for some years been the most Important woman in German secret service, of which her rascally husband Conrad von Hertzenfeldts, murderer, thief, blackmailer, and profligate, to whom she was passionately attached, was for some time the controlling Influence. Possessing the organizing brain of a Napoleon, the beauty of a Venus, the wealth of a Rothschild, the power (wielded secretly) equivalent to that of many an emperor, she ranked as the most dangerous spy who ever cast the fascinating spell of her beauty, talents, and unscrupulous daring over the chancelleries of the world. When Blunder Means Death. She could, up till some time ago, do no wrong in the eyes of the kaiser. She possessed more dangerous secrets that any other en women in the Fatherland. Hers was the mind that controlled and directed the vast German espionage machine in which the cogs are women of all ages in every station of life. Hella von Wamberg has disappeared. Not a word of her disappearance has been printed in the newspapers. Only in the most select secret service ' circles is here presence missed. No one knows for a certainty what has become of her. But those of us who move behind the scenes in the great network of international espionage spying, to put it bluntly can give a pretty shrewd guess. Over something, we know not what, Hella von Wamberg has blundered so high in the secret service of the Fatherland to blunder means death. Bunglers are worth more dead to the kaiser than alive. Perhaps Hella has obeyed an order to commit suicide; perhaps she has been mysteriously and artistically put away and her secrets sent with her to a nameless grave. The latter is more probable. Any day the news may leak out in Germany and be cabled here that Hella von Wamberg, the woman whose name never appeared in the newspapers but who wielded tremendous power and was dreaded by the spies of all other countries, has been found dead "in mysterious circumstances." Follows In Footsteps If Holla von Wansberg has been murdered, as a person like myself with Inside knowledge has every justification for assuming, she will only have followed In the footsteps of many other German spies who, at a crucial moment have failed In some great espionage task upon the accomplishment of which tne war lord has set , great 6tore. In my calling as a neutral secret service agent, moving about the world in places where the ordinary mortal dared not to venture even if he were allowed, I have become acquainted with some astounding happenings Nothing has struck me more forcibly than the absolute brutal pitilessness with which the German emperor treats the spies for whom the fatherland has no further use. I have seen with my own eyes the imperial signature attached to documents authorizing the shooting, poisoning, drowning or stabbing, not only of men, but of young girls of from seventeen to twenty, and women between fifty and slxty-flve, who have failed in their duty as spies. With some of these women I have been brought into close professional contact. I have dined, traveled and done business with and against them, and the numbers I have personally known who have followed a failure by suicide rather than meet the terrible doom the kaiser has planned for them can be counted by the dozen-t-some of them bright, brainy, beautiful young women of high parentage, who could have made their mark in practically any walk of life calling lor the exhibition of mentality, physical courage and a total disregard of dauger. Of course, nobody is fool enough to believe that the kaiser carries out these murders with his own hand. Hut the fact remains that he orders them or sanctions them, therefore he 1 as much a murder morally as if his own hand had fired the fatal shot. The Life or Torture. However valuable be the service a !erman spy has rendered to his or her country, they are never allowed to be pensioned off nor spend declining years of their lives in peace. When the secret service has had all it can get out of them death is their-inevitable portion. And the reason why the kaiser murders his spies morally, if not in actual fact is not far to seek. The very nature of their calling puts theiu in possession of information the disclosure of which would be disastrous to the fatherland. Whilst they are actually in the service there is comparatively little danger of their doing much harm. Periodical tests of the most complete and searching character are made to plumb the depths of a spy's loyalty. The men can not trust their

own wives; the women their own mothers and sisters. Letters are opened and examined, maids and men servants are installed to spy on the spies and they in turn are spied on and this great espionage network is 10 vast, so interminable, that no one on earth seems to know exactly where it ends. It is practically impossible for a spy to communicate or preserve anything valuable in writing. In the early days of Britain's stupendous efforts to turn out munitions in tremendous quantities, the German secret service, on the kaiser's own suggestion, sent orders that as many as possiole of ' the German women spies left in England should wed themselves to British workmen In order that tbey might get better facilities for spying particularly in obtaining information relative to the secrets incidental to the manufacture of munitions. Dead Never Tell Tales. am is a position to know that a

MRS. WILLIE HOPPE

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Mrs. Willie Hoppe taking a lesson on the rifle at Mare Island

While Willie Hoppe, billard champ,

the ivories about, friend wife is learning to shoot a rifle. Willie Hoppe has

undertaken to show the boys in the

may sharpen .their eyes and have a greater enjoyment from billiards when they have time for the diversion. The picture shows Mrs. Hoppe while at the

Mare Island navy training station recently being taught a thing or two about

the use of the rifle by Boatswain O among the boys in the navy. list of forty names of German women then in England was sent over, and the order was that within a given period they were to be married to British men. To my own knowledge nearly half of them failed. They knew what it meant. Before them lay the choice of two terrible alternatives murder or suicide. In most cases they chose suicide. A short paragraph in the newspapers announced the finding of the body of a welldressed woman in the river, or dead from an overdose of veronal or other poison. To the average newspaper reader it was just simply another of life's happenings. To me, with a full knowledge of the kaiser's heinous plot these little paragraphs told in the plainest possible language the story of another life sacrificed to the ruthlessness of the German spy system. The newspapers called the happenings suicide or accidents. I knew they ought to be called by another name. And I have known and worked with men who have been imprisoned, starved, tortured and even blinded because they have transgressed the laws of the espionage bureau, the tentacles of which stretch from Berlin to Bagdad, and from China to Peru. If the spy dread3 the kaiser, the kaiser dreads the spy. That is why the war lord resorts to the wholesale criminal methods I have, for the first time, described. TEUTON PRESS Continued From Page One. greatest battle of the war is now about to begin there. "We must not allow the belief to arise, however," it says, "that the increase of our strength in the west will force the French to lay down their arms or the English to run away. The Kaiser's Threat. "It may come to this of course, and Hindenburg said a year ago 'We are already doing it. my children.' Our emperor, the supreme war lord, has said that the decision is not to be sought. Will to victory and readiness for peace are combined in his words, 'If the enemy does not wish peace we must bring peace to the world by breaking in the gates of those who do not want peace, with mailed fist and flashing sword.'" Major von Olberg. head of the war press bureau, writes in the . official Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. that the blow Is. now ready to fall whenever Hindenburg gives the word, and it can only lead to victory. Decision is Here "The year of decision has dawned," writes von Olberg. "A feeling of foreboding already permeates our enemies and the cry for aid from Japan and j America is constantly heard, vet the enemy leaders know that the United States cannot even make up for the number of men France an1 England were obliged to send to Italy's aid, especially as the troops they were sending from America are inexperi- i enced and lack training. We.are quitoj aware that America will do her utmost'j to assist with money and war material and will probably send many technical troops and aviators, but we are prepared for every contingency. - America cannot possibly do . more than she did when ostensibly neutral. "So we meet the coming year full of confidence. Our position on the western front must improve daily and an equalization of forces is taking place there, where the enemy has always been numerically superior. In addition, all our munition factories are working for one front and the whole of our enormous reserves of material will be at once dispatched thither. Even. Troops Are Inspired "With deep feelings of relief our troops on the western front are be ginning . to realize that the days of trench warfare are almost at an end. Up and at the enemy at last. Our rer Is free and we have the reserves at our disposal. The great blow can now falL Where and when? Those ques-

LEARNS TO SHOOT

is showing the jackies how to shoot navy, allhecan about billiards that they Connor. Both have made many friends RAIDS AND Continued From Page One. trians for a feparate peace, the Bolshevik! sent to Brest-Litovsk new delegate who tLey said were the real representatives of Ukraine. The representatives of the central pawers, anxious to make peace with Ukraine and obtain food supplies, there refused to recognize the new delegates, who represent the solrr.ers and workmen's deputys of Ukraine, whereas the first delegation was selected by the Ukrainian Rada. This situation was considered at the crown council in Berlin on Monday, after which the German and Austro-Hun-garian foreign ministers left for BrestLitovsk. EVERYTHING SET FOR FATHER-SON BANQUET Extensive preparations have been made by Boys' Secretary Brunson for the Fathers and Sons dinner at the Y. M. C. A. Tuesday evening, February 32. Three hundred father and sons will atend. The Commercial club will postpone its meeting until Wednesday evening. Sunday, February 17, there will be special Father and Son Services in the Richmond churches. Organizations promoting the meetings are the Rotary club, Commercial club. High school and Garfield, Y. M. C. A. and churches. The idea is to re-emphasize the imperativeness of real comradeship between father and son, according to Secretary Brunson. The dinner will be served at 6:45 o'clock. From 6 until 6:45 o'clock there will be an informal reception in the lobby at the Y. M. C. A. Secretary Brunson said any man who has a son over 10 years o Id should bring him along. If you have no son to bring you will be provided with a son pro tem. The High School ochestra under the direction of Supervisor Sloane will play.' The sisters of the brothers will assist with the serving. They are asked to mpet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Y. M". C. A. for organ ization. tions the enemy leaders are' anxiouslv asking themselves. The reply is 'Wherever and whenever Hindenburg wishes.' We know that he will choose the time and place that will lead to vistory. The German fleet, too, is to participate in the coming offensive, accord ing to the . Tageblatt. "Th'i German fleet, relieved of anxiety and pressure in its rear, says this newspaper, "can now turn to the west with its full strength. The task. of ,the , British fleet, even if it is supported by Its allies, will be difficult. We have full faith in the German navy which has so often exhibited its will to victory ana its capacity to tuitlll its duty." If You Want to Study the Fine Print of SEED CATALOGUES EASILY You had better first see EiMJFJBS Optometrist 10 NORTH NINTH STREET Phone 2765

Red Cross Notes

orty-nve members of the surgical dressing class met at the Red Cross rooms Wednesday, under the supervision of Mrs. Olive Allison. Mrs. Rudolph G.- Leeds. Mrs. Richard Study, Miss Ann Nicholson, Miss Maude Minck and Mrs. Edward Wendling assisted. Six sweaters were received Wednesday from the Centerville branch. The surgical dressings class will meet Friday morning. Mrs. Rudoiph G. Leeds and Mrs. Olive Allison were in Cambridge City Tuesday instructing a branch there tn various lines of work. An average of 40 women work each day at the rooms. War Books Popular Book dealers say that America's entrance in the war has greatly affected the Richmond reading public Instead of reading popular fiction, there is an inclination to buy war books. Magazines giving current events and scientific knowledge have taken the place of those devoted to fiction. Court Records Marriage Licenses. Garner Cecil Fleisch, 24 years old, farmer, Boston, to Mabel Marie Bruening, 19 years old, stamstress, Richmond. Thomas McCree, 20 years old, fireman, Richmond, to Alma Fern Elkins, 21 years old, seamstress, Richmond. MORRISON RESIGNS POST Harry Morrison, manager of the Westcott hotel, has resigned to accept a position in Indianapolis. Palladium Want Ads Pay. HAVE YOUR CLEANED and OVERHAULED NOW Nice weather will soon be here and you will want it. KMKING'S 43 N. 8th ST.

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Continued From Pane One. i retary of war disclose the figures in public. Postpone Action The upshot of It was the question of ships was left to be presented, in detailed exact statement to the committee In secret session tomorrow and the cross examination went on to other subjects of a general nature. Senator Hitchcock who has attacked particularly the secretary of war's statement that the United States could put a million men in France this year, in addition to 600,000 there early this spring, was insistent that Mr. Baker should show the committee what grounds he had for believing there were ships available for their transport and their supply. Secretary Baker replied he did not have the exact figures in his mind but that his statement was made on figures which had been prepared by experts who took in the Information at the disposal of the shipping board as well as what ships might, be available from neutral and foreign sources. The secretary made plain that he was not counting wholly on American ships to transport the troops. Secretary Baker did say, however, that probably the form of his original statement to the committee, which has been made the base of attack was unfortunate In that it expressed his general opinion of a broad situation rather than the exact statement of experts going into details. "The misfortune for me, if I may call it such," said Secretary Baker, j "lay in the fact that I attempted to j give opinions of the board general sit- j uation as I saw it when the informa-j tion lay in details that ought to have j been gotten from the experts in direct j charge, or in statistics giving specific j facts. I was attempting a general j survey. It was a misfortune for me i to do that." An estimate of 791,000 tons of ships ; available for transport of February 1, STOMACH UPSET? . ! Get at the Real Cause Take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That's what thousands of stomach sufferers are doing now. Instead of taking tonics, or trying to patch up a poor digestion, they are attacking the real cause of the ailment clogged liver and disordered bowels. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the liver in a soothing, healing way. When j the liver and bowels are performing their j natural functions, away goes indigestion i and stomach troubles. j If you have a bad taste in your I mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor, j lazy, don't-care feeling, no ambition or i energy, trouDiea wun unaigesieu iuous you should take Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. They do the work without griping, cramps or pain. Take one or two at bedtime for quick relief, so you can eat what you like. At 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Grey Kid Vamp Cloth top Shoes. (Jjfy grade. During Annual Sale p 4 Calf Lace

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The secretary said he bad not de-i tennlned whether troops would be kept in the southern camps next summer. If the summer was as extreme as this winter has been, he said, some would have to be removed. Mr. Baker gave the opinion that new legislation would be desirable to give the president general powers to co-ordinate functions of various departments as conditions arise. Possibly that the actual purchasing powers for the war department may be largely planned In the hands of Edward R. Stettinius, surveyor general, was indicated by the secretary. "Mr. Stettinius is relied upon to do this thing," he said.

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