| Show J r t E Ya A k I r gyp i J u i MS r t t P tit a S S SS v f ft S A Af t f p t 1 S r v J In the summer Bummer of 1917 Anne Lesser af y ys il t. t worked as a Norman servant gi girl 1 in iii inthe 1 the headquarters of the French rt i d' d count counterespionage system where she A obtained in d valuable information a after ter chloroforming the thc guard Ax 1 t By R. R S. S en ric ck f r Paris tl FREE REE me from tills prison prison Immediately Y T or I shall have you aU all mar court 1 J I III must go to Paris a at once oncel The The Emperor Emperor Em Em- Emperor and the great general staff want grant me to find out when the French ar are going goins to launch taun b their next offensive and nd whether hether s those cursed Americans are still sun coming E A wreck of f a young woman woman only only 35 but looking 65 65 ls is continually raving Craving like this in a private Insane Insane asylum near Zurich Switzerland alternately cursing j- j and entreating to be released She is the famous famous German spy Mademoiselle Mademoiselle Made moiselle Docteur once the terror of or the French English and American counterespionage counterespionage counterespionage counter counter- espionage services and now a pitiful r human wreck owing to the use of nar nar- teats Her mind is entirely entirely gone gone She Fr believes that she is still sUB the star performer performer performer per per- former of oi the formidable e German spy service that the war is 13 still going on that the All AU Highest is impatiently j awaiting her ber l latest test reports from Fran France e as he be once did that hundreds of thousands thou thou- thousands s sands of of are waiting to plunge plunger r r Into b battle f for r the fatherland wh when n she sher r gives th the signal Was Was Vas there therea a a. single Allied espionage w chief who did not sense the preS presence nce of ot b- b the mysterious Dame Blonde around aroundhim I him day and night hovering behind his his' shoulder like an ironic phantom watchIng watchIng watch- watch r Ing his slightest m movement countering his t t every move Who is is- she shei a French or British spy 4 chief would ask sk some miserable Greek 14 Swede Spaniard or Dutchman who hadr had bad r been caught for tn their net StI Simply tell teU me her n name me tell me what whit sh she looks t. t like Uke to tell tiu U me where her headquarters is 11 and 1 L 1 shall see that your our life is 15 spared spared- spared 1 but the wretch would only burst out sobbing sobbIng sobbing sob sob- bing as he pi pictured a a. a gray dawn be before re a a. certain post in the tile Vincennes barracks and stutter incredible tales of being taken I to a mysterious villa near Antwerp where a beautiful l masterful blond young woman with a revolver in one hand and anda a a. hunting bunting crop in the other other got such a aw w domination over him that he lived under that spell of terror and arid fascination lon until tint the crack of twelve rifles rUles ended his life Ute NOW more than ten years after the armistice a German author Hans Hansi i Rudolf has published at Berlin Berlina a a. book called Espionage in which he clears up the mystery surrounding this f remarkable woman spy The book has been reprinted and read with avid intereSt interest inter inter- est eat in France It is a typically true spy story storY storY-I a girl plunging into into this dangerous danger danger- tit ous Otis wog work to forget an unhappy love affair w u utterly terly indifferent whether she lived or fi died k Anne Marie Lesser was the daughter 01 of ofa a Do rich Berlin BerIn anti antiquary quart When only 16 she ahe fell tell violently in love lo wl with h Karl Vo von a handsome young Hussar of- of off of officer f eer of one otie of or the Kaisers o own guard regiments One night after weeping out but buta outa ut uta a confession to her father he ate kicked her from Ills his home lome and never I pardoned her ber 7 This caused a scandal a and d Lieutenant 1 I von van was wag forced f to resign from the army Von b besieged by creditors finally got a a post with some irregular troops serving on the Russian frontier where he developed develop d brilliant talent tal tai eat ent as a raUw railway t specialist His lils creditors still stUl pursued him and his colonel wh who W was t forced to tomake make him resign confidentially hY rr commended Von to the German Ger ier- i man man ArIU Army spy service which W was 1 always alway r on on the lookout for officers whose careers had been Deen broken 1 shall give you marks to pay 1 your debts and and 1200 marks monthly sal pry ary tY the German s sr spy r r told him n. n Your job lob is to study the 5 5 French and Belgian n- n strategic rail railways ways Von Van Winan d accepted and taking Fraulein Lesser with him went to France K in 1912 Disguised as 15 tourists they spent spent several months in a a J village near near Ver Verdun un drawing plans of ot the lefens Defenses es there andt and then went north along the frontier One t. night Al Anne Jl Marie woke suddenly and dei de de- I i that she knew they were being I v. v watched Von had bad so 50 much cony con con- j y In Ii hex her Intuition that the two oS ol i. i them them dr dressed walked a long distance nce in r i 4 I 1 J k- k t 1 It h t j J A s 1 TJ i iv sn r 1 t r v i n I l 1 l. l 11 j f I vr v S 1 Y ir I r i 7 S Z f ft Ih t 1 1 i 1 I i. n. n io f w 1 7 ti o. o h fo j J J J 1 5 f r f 0 t. t About Ahou t at L' L Las Last H tr i S 4 v i N GerI German lans lan's Famous S p AN a h. h r i it Mademoiselle Docteur r f k 1 Sf the a Fearless a and nd Mysterious b r r Y v r k yr r t N. N II Dame Blond Blonde Who Often i I Outwitted ze the e Allies Revealed in n r i l Berlin Book Just Off the e Press Pres' as a s r. r Star St r of Kaisers Kaiser's Secret Service r rJ J i fF tt R b Tf f C 4 Y tZ 5 v al r jf x 4 q i q A r wiY o y f 4 i j a hy c 4 4 YA y t ft yS i v r y x rW r v i. i ff 5 T s rr s r t aj v f i atH t N y I 4 ii t I A scene of the German Army in action during daring the late war when many its of-its important im im- J. J offensives were sere plan planned ed in a accordance cordan e with i information formation received from the t rt clever Mademoiselle Docteur 1 AX t 1 the darkness to and bought tickets there for Cologne While WIllIe waiting for the train they noticed p police Uce suddenly appe appear r at both ends of the platform and realized what that meant The girl never lost her wit wits s Hurry over to the other platform she said walking up to the police at one end of the station We are trying to catch two German spies over there I am from the French Be careful the spies are well weIl armed As the French police pollee hurried to the theother theother other side the two German spies Jumped into a m motorcar and dashed across ss the frontier before they could be caught It was a great success for Von Van but butth th the next day he was struck down by an attack of ot acute a appendicitis at Cologne and died under the knife Anne Marie who was only 18 then was left alone in inthe inthe inthe the world Von family even forbade her to attend the funeral and and she was just g getting ready to co commit lt suicide espionage officer arrived d from Berlin and asked 1 if she could help heIp decipher the notes written by her com com- panion She had a pistol when the officer am stepped Into her hotel room After the crisis of sobbing the girl agreed to go to Berlin and thero she read her e lovers lover's s 's notes with such ease and pr precision cislon that the spy chief asked her what she intended to doI do I 1 have nothing to live for I shall die the she replied calmly And if I offered you you ou work that was intensely ely absorb absorbing and nd that exP exposed sed you to great danger he asked Anne Marie burst into tears tears thinking of or her lover but she eventually agreed to tob tobe tobe b be a a- aspy spy and be became tUo 1 H A G. THE HE French Arm Army Y was holding It Its maneuvers maneuvers ma near the Alsatian frontier that year and the young spy Who jho was actually a painter went there ostensibly as a young Swiss artist and made many Interesting sketches sketches' of French gunS guns all and other material on her bristol covering them up with harmless harmle little pastoral scenes Jn LIn the Uie spring CJ of 1914 she went to to study th the new thew B Belgian forts at Ll Liege gc A young Belgian lieutenant who had fallen in love ove with Anne Marie Marlo took tier her everywhere sh she wanted to go and was simply r fascinated by the pretty little paintings s she made ade of ot windmills butone butone but butone one day a scrap of or paper with figures on onit onit onit it dropped out of her pocket packet She nad had nad to tel her chauffeur to d dash b for the Dutch frontier The lieutenant and gendarmes pursued but she beat them by two min toes utes It It is 13 said that the report she made about the Belgian fortifications proved oi ot great value to the German Army In the beginning of at July 1914 Fraulein l Lesser Leaser arrived in tn Paris from Milan MUan traveling travel travel- Ing on a German passport As the cloud of ot war were gathering already German spy chief in tn the the French capital faked a Belgian passport for for- her and as u 1 1 t Ft J ta r t r r. r f- f y s i ia a Belgian army nurse he traveled all allover over Northern France for several weeks 1 She was in Brussels the day war broke out reported d to Berlin about the Belgian t mobilization and on the night of at August 3 2 she was arrested by a a. patrol of the r. r f advancing German armies I 5 You are a a. spy and will be mar court 1 I t r a colonel of the division staff stab told T i v her severely r q r s. s A K KI Idiot Anne Marie replied Obviously I am a spy and you dont don't have hav to be clever to discover that But it happens w. w I that I Iam am a a. German agent The colonel did not want to belie believe rc her f as she was still dressed as a Belgian nurse a Z r k Telegraph immedi immediately tel tely to the great 9 QT f x t 1 A r J. J Y 4 t I v tt x f r. r arr tF ill vf ry a y y a r q Yardy ct I r ti r l l f The Kaisers Kaiser's i ers er's Om officers e 5 avidly e seized tJ the reports ts of this this' wo woman spy and unhesitatingly trusted to her ac accuracy ara y general headquarters h that you have nave ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested 14 1 A G A-G G an and tb that she has bas as very vital information she demanded otherwise other otherwise wise U It t la is you who w U be court max An hour later a a. high espionage officer from headquarters dashed up up In a motorcar motor motor- car cursing loudly All the movements s' of this army depend depend depend de de- de- de the shouted pend on womans woman's report he lie at the divisional staff sniff You should have sent her ber to us at once She Is more Important than your whole division Aft After r the big German offensive was f i f- f T r finally halted Anne Marie Marie traveled back back and forth between Germany and the Allied countries many times Umes always bringing back bad Important information Otto One of ot her most spectacular f teats feats ats W WIn wu was in the summer of 1917 By this hl time the French co counterespionage ha had succeeded eq in smashing the entire entire I German spy organization ol hi to France krance and nd no news was leaking ou out The Kaiser se sent t word that be he was anxious to know ow what was was going gome on in tn Paris One Ono day a looking stupid a cing Norman servant sere erv ant girl with several 1 good references from rom n nJ y of 1 J i i 4 I Prior to the outbreak of the tho war An Anne e Les Lesser er went Yent to the Alsatian frontier in the guise of a Swiss artist artisti where she made sk sketches sketches- of the French guns and nd other material covering th them m over with harmless pa pastoral toral 8 scenes alleged former employers went to No 3 Rue Francois I t. t Paris and asked for a job lob This house bad all the appearances ol of being a sort of family hotel botel In reality it was the headquarters of the French counterespionage service The Janitor had never seen such a looking dumb girl but ho finally g gave ve her hera a a aJob job lob scrubbing and polishing the floors There were three e charwomen on duty It was a rule that one must work at i night arid and as the oth other r two disliked night w work rk the new girl took on the jo lob Job a and d ac actually seemed d to like Uke it lt t. t On n Sundays sunday a young noncommissioned officer w was s the only o on duty He never paid any notice to tho dirty young scrubwoman but button on the fourth S Sunday day she cleaned up put on some pretty cIot clothes cs and pd too took tys bre breath th away He tried to kiss her ber she put a wad wart of cotton with chloroform under his nose and nd ho he went to sleep p. p Like a flash the new hew new charwoman charwoman Anne Anne Mario went Mario-went went through Q the confidential 1 flies files and ext extracted ted a list of t all aU the French spies operating g In tn Germany and and oth other r for foreign n countries she immediately Jumped into a motorcar wl with b a confederate coated coated- crate erate dashed toward Switzerland and crossed t the We e fr frontier by a u lI little known known o mountain ro route te while all the gendarmes of at Fran Franco France c were se searching C g for her ber Again gaw in 19 1918 8 the tho o Kaiser w wanted n some cella reliable Ie information r from m France ce and nd Anne Marie Marte suddenly app appeared ared t Q-t Barre Barre- rc she tona lona on hc be had q ar arrived th there rc by submarine e ein in the gut g sP 0 ol of a a rich Argentine She organized organised a at Red Cross delegation of of wealthy women from Barcelona lona to visit the the frenc French military ry neld Bold hospitals 3 and give presents to the wounded wounded- t In this way the spy visited the m most t important r 4 t F Fr r j k q r rh ry h y rY y fJ r yM r r fyr y rr cy rf V. V 1 v Mademoiselle rr Docteur reproduced IJ L l' l f rY v fn from an alleged photo W I fi-I of oC her which appeared I Y L recently in a Paris aris newspaper i parts of the French front but In one hospital she Sha was recognized by the Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian sian officer who had fallen In love with her before the war and had to tomake make make- a a mad dash dash- dashto to her motorcar with many many French soldiers in pursuit She Bh got away in the darkness crossed the front line lima during a heavy rainstorm and nd was was 5 pl picked ed 7 1 up half haIt dead by a a. German patron patrol pa r l. l At other times Mademoiselle Docteur directed a a. spy bureau at Antwerp w where ere r she trained many persons whom she sent into the Allied d countries During one visit to Paris where she went to give the chief agent M. M Cou Cou- direct instructions she was de denounced de dc- to the French authorities by M rL Jealous fiancee but escaped She returned to Paris a few months months' later and received valuable documents from the R Rumanian mantan dancer Rene cu which she decided to take to Berlin personally per per- She was was' stopped at the Swiss border and was escorted by a soldier When out o of earshot of the soldiers soldier's companion she drew a a. revolver and shot the guard dead The next morning she appeared appear d on the Swiss side and another guard was found dead at the border HIGH French officer who was wa's was one ol of A the directors of his bis country's coun counterespionage counterespionage counter counter- espionage ge service smiled bitterly when lask i l' 1 ask asked J him for tor his memories of this remarkable remarkable re re- woman It was was like p playing a g game nie of ot chess against an an Invisible opponent ent the officer explained We felt her a activity W Wt realized d that on the other othe side there was wasa a clever energetic highly y tra trained Drained e w woman an who w was |
