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Show GERMAN METHODS D1ST0RBJ0RWAY Spies Working Everywhere Under the Direction of Espionage Es-pionage Centers in Scandinavian Scan-dinavian Countries. MYSTERIOUS FIRES German Plotters Try to Blow Up Government Factory Planing Mills Destroyed. CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 21. (Correspondence (Corres-pondence of the Associated Press.) Norway during the last half of this year has had tho same experience of German methods as the United States went through before it entered tho war, spies working everywhere under tho direction of espionage centers in the neighboring countries, Sweden and Denmark Thanks to the work of the police, especially in Chrlstiania, many of them have been caught, some sent to ; jail and others expelled from the country. coun-try. i Several mysterious fires in great industrial in-dustrial plants and storage houses have aroused a country-wide suspicion against every German, Swede and Finn, During the last half of the year there have been twenty-one such fires hero, two or three occurring together. The groat store of provisions in Trond-jem Trond-jem belonging to the British importing import-ing agency was burned with a loss of several million dollars. It proved to be of incendiary origin. Two canning plants with great exports for Great Britain were burned, and a condensed milk plant with exclusive export trade to England was destroyed with more than a million cans ready for shipment-Three planing mills in different parts of the country were burned. Their output -vvas being used for boxes and crates for export. The other day another planing mill in tho vicinity of the government's fire-arm manufactory manufac-tory at Kongsberg was burned during the night and while attention was directed di-rected toward this fire a burglar was detected In the fire-arm factor)'. The press states that German plotters in this case tried to blow up the government govern-ment factorj. Foreigners have sought and in some cases obtained employment at the government gov-ernment munition plant, and later have been discovered to be Gorman citizens, some of them even officers in the German army. The press is warning the people to look for a criminal spy in every German Ger-man in tho country. In order to keep such undesirable guests out of the country and prevent tHo InorpJlCilnP- niimhor nf fnrnlirnnPD of a poor quality from drifting into Norway, a short bill vas passed by parliament forbidding foreigners who havo arrived since1 August, 191-1, to stay here more than two weeks without with-out a special license. |