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Show SPIES TO MEET I SERIOUS DANGERS Americans to Use Every Ruse Tried and Same Untried Ones. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN 9R VNCE, April 9. (Correspondence Of the Associated Press.) Spies who! ma endeavor to get into the ranks of the American expeditionary forces are 1 likely to find such a maneuver extremely ex-tremely difficult and dangerous, so complete nre arrangements to prevent, such things happening. Of course it Is not advisable to disclose just what the, 'arrangements are but every ruse tried! 1 by enemy agents during this war in various armies, and some that lme not been tried, have been provided for. It came to light recently that orders! had been Issued in certain quarters to the general effect that officers receiving receiv-ing drafts into conioat divisions from i replacement divisions were to make; : sure that each member of the draft j j actually was the man he was supposed to be and that no other man was in-eluded in-eluded in the group, .lust what caused i his order Is not disclor.ed. but it con- i rain an inference that Is obvious. The order was Issued just a few days before one of our telephone wire? had been fouDd tapped in a trench, th" tap wire running out across No Man's Iand. There was some talk at that time among the men in the line of hunting for a spy; but there has been no further development. It is not Impossible Im-possible however, that a German patrol pat-rol taking advantage of the opportune moment hooked tbir tap wire on the line in our trench and then retired quickly. nn |