Show GERMANY TAKING NO SPY CHANCES correspondent tells how he was searched when about to leave country MINUTE examination every article of clothing gets close scrutiny and ordeal Is if quite humiliating for women of tender senses FRANZ HUGO KREBS in new york times new york the examination which one has to undergo when entering or leaving germany Is very stringent and trying and ns as the war continues Is gradually becoming more rigid A friend of mine who ha had d come into germany a few days before told me that on reaching tickets were given out and that passengers were examined in the order of the nut number liber on the ticket so I 1 arrange arranged d matters with the conductor of the train from berlin tie ile told me where to stand just before we reached pointed out to me when we arrived the man who gave out the tickets and I 1 received no 1 entering a building by the train I 1 was told to go through a long room and was halted at the door of another room and asked to produce my passport after it had been carefully scrutinized I 1 was passed into another room there I 1 found a porter with my grips and hatbox and I 1 was asked to identify I 1 my trunk all my luggage was then placed on a wooden bench and an officer and came over to take charge of the examination search was thorough I 1 never pack my trunk it had been picked by the chambermaid at the botel hotel bristol on unter den linden find and when I 1 left its appearance pe arance beggared description all my collars shirts drawers and socks were examined one by one to see whether any concen concealed led papers could be located or whether anything was written on or sewed into them handkerchiefs were entirely unfolded shirts drawers and socks were turned inside out and always there was a careful and persistent search every crease was examined my soap was cut in pieces and a stick of camphor ice that had been cut in two places when I 1 came into germany was cut la in another place first the grips were examined and then the hatbox then tray by tray everything in the trunk was gone over my boots and slippers were examined with great care and fortunately I 1 had no boots that had bad been recently resoled resolved or rebee re heeled led otherwise they might have been ripped apart this I 1 was told Is breque frequently atly done coming into germany the examining officer had torn out the stand in my hatbox on which the hat rested I 1 had this fixed in berlin but I 1 might better have waited until I 1 returned to new york because na as it was impossible for him to get his hands between the stand on which the hat rested and the side of the box the examiner simply tore the stand out the band of my silk hat was pushed up to see whether anything was concealed underneath der neath and the cushion for brushing the hat was ripped open suspect paris hat my evening hat was opened although it was bought in the united states it seems that it had been made in paris and as that fact was stamped inside I 1 had a feeling that it did not lessen the care with nith which it was examined in the bottom of my trunk there were vere about a dozen summer shirts I 1 had not worn them since the previous summer and each had a piece of cardboard placed in it when ahen laundered in it order to hold tile the shirt in shape the cardboard was taken out of each shirt and laid aside tills this completed the examination of my luggage lugg ige arid and I 1 was theu then told to go with another and submit to a personal examination I 1 was directed to go into a compartment and was told to take off all my clothing except ray my undershirt I 1 was riso also told to take everything out of my pockets and put it on it a shelf banknotes Bank notes were unfolded d one by one to see that there was no tissue between my was opened so was a small metal case that I 1 carry my subway tickets in the outer wid inner caws or of my watch were opened the pockets of my iny to topcoat p coat waistcoat arid and trousers were wele turned inside out find and fingers passed over nver every seam my loots boots grid and soc socks ks drawers and shirt received the same a III e careful attention allent lon previously necol accorded ded those in my trunk the bund band around arOI IIII the hat I 1 wore was pushed led up lip aud and tile sweatband was turned down next I 1 was haribed a paper to sign stating that everything had bad been returned to rue me and I 1 was told that my examination was over the examination of suspected women Is of course conducted by inspectors ills pec tors and I 1 was told that cipher dispatches written on oil paper have sometimes been discovered and that the examination Is rigid in the extreme in fact american women who consider going to germany before tho the ond of the war must make up their minds mind in advance that they may possibly be subjected to an examination that to many would be |