Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-04-30 | Page 17 | Crowned Heads Are Carefully Guarded

WffiDBSM ClFUUfMDEO Every Possible Protection Is Given to Emperors and Kings. SYSTEM NEAR PERFECT Men and Women Employed Are Possessed of High Attainments. j Special Cable to The Tribune. BERLIN, April 29. The crowned heads of Europe, even in time of peace, are guarded in a manner that would be irksome to them, if they were not used to it from childhood. Since the present pres-ent war began the measures taken for tho safety of the emperors and kings ami their families have, of courne, been doubled. The most closely guarded monarch, with the exception of the czar, is King George of England. The British ruler always is surrounded by a large staff of detectives, even in his private apartments apart-ments in Buckingham palace. When the king dines out or attends some festival he is accompanied by a number of secret se-cret service agents, but these expert detectives de-tectives do their work so tactfully that they are never noticed and in most cases are not even known to the king. Generally they wear the livery of servants ser-vants oi the royal household. The secret police which guards the czar consists of more than 300 men, and when the ruler travels this is increased to a small army. With the numerous detectives a special bodyguard of Cossacks Cos-sacks and other picked troops always surrounds the Russian emperor. On his journeys through the empire the railroads rail-roads are lined with soldiers, and his court train is preceded by another one appearing exactly the same. Not Guarded in Field. ; The German emperor is guarded less i earefullv than the British and Russian : rulers, but he also has several stalwart detectives following him whenever he shows himself in public. He is unguarded only when he visits his troops in the field. There he feels himself absolutely safe, and his sojourns at the headquarters of the general staff always mean a vacation for the secret police of ncials attached to his suite. The detectives watching over the safety of the rulers must possess not , only a large amount of tact and fitness, but also special training. All of them ; have command of many languages and it is absolutely necessary that they be absolutely familiar with the plans" and workings of the many secret revolutionary revolu-tionary organizations which are forever hatching murderous plots against the different rulers. Several of the detectives guarding the czar are members of nihilist and anarchist societies and their lives would not be worth a farthing if they ever should be found out by the revolutionists. revolution-ists. Must Be Linguists. The chief of detectives at the British court speaks five languages and trie officials of-ficials holding the same positions at Berlin and Petrograd have command of seven each, but the best linguist is the I head of the secret service at the court of tho sultan 0f Turkey. This Bleuth, besides his native tongues, fluently speaks Arabian, Greek, Armenian, Bul- , garian Rumanian, Serbian, Italian, Ger- I man, French, English, Russian, Persian , and three other languages. Many of the courts also have female , detectives. Queen Victoria of Spain on her travels is always accompanied by a very beautiful and stylish woman, who is never mentioned in the court reports. The lady is said to be a wealthy American Ameri-can friend of the queen; but, in fact, she is an English detective attached to the palace secret service. The British and Gorman courts have no female detectives, but Queen Helena of Italy, Queen Sophie of Greece, Queen Marie of Rumania, Queen Eleonore of Bulgaria and the czarina are guarded, like the queen of Spain, by secret agents of their own ser.