Show MODERN OF s there arc many things about each other which nations would like to know in order to discover what they must know but are not allowed to civilized states employ military epics they may be military or naval attaches duly accredited to an embassy or berret gents who are sent to reside or travel in choso districts from which tion is required by the intelligence de apartment part ment the work of the arst clam ia not unimportant but it in not risky the officer may not overstep the bounds ot common honesty and rarely it ever attempts to achieve anything secretly lie is closely watched and kiowa ty it he becomes u strong centra of at traction he may divert the attention of watchers from some secret agent who is possessing himself of the particulars the is ostensibly BO anxious to acquire but is successfully prevented from the ia s a clearing agent spies bacomo possessed of facts which are of no real value to those who employ them but are assumed to be woith much by the agents of other countries and an exchange of pieces ia effected sometimes apparently timeless information ia sought simply for ata exchange value for instance some years ago two british officers created considerable annoyance no iu russia by their persistence in hanging about the district an fn chii the autumn manoeuvre were to take place they were invited to join ab staff th was there but this honor they declined BRITISH SPIES then representations were made at the british embassy where the officers were unknown and subsequently they disappeared for a time only to be du covered at the end of the manoeuvre in one of the five great fortresses protect the west frontier of russia and the one that had been the centre of le military operations had aliese men been prussian officer their position would have been danger ua and an unpleasant international in might have occurred the ru 60 german frontier is nothing to great britain neither is the franco german we exchange the arst piece with germany for the second and the second with trance for a little bit of newt about russia in asia which india be alieves to be important and thus we get home each country hag ats own peculiar sphere of interest to which it devotes it greatest attention great britain rna BO many properly speaking it lui none but india Is always alarmed as to russia i and agents british and native of the india department arp vcr busy seeking particulars likely to be of service when wo have to defend an empire which already in the military beens extends from aden to hong ken most of the indian agents in russia tj officers 0 the indian army but needless to state they do not travel na euch some affect to be tourists bf art innocent but in turn 0 mind borne go as com mercur travellers trav ellers lean to religious propaganda while others collect curiosities commercial travellers TRAV ELLERS the agents have been BO energetic and so prolific in their that in the south of russia the bana fido commercial traveller excites the russians now insist upon all com being licensed licen ced and taxed moreover the intelligence department has found alio for goods obtained baita trav ellera ing As a buying agent the cipy ha aha worked all na briton can now go acroca the capian to purchase so any mord than to ell or even just to amuse without his letter being opened and the company he keep carefully noted elsewhere ihan in central asia the in qui foreigner it likely to be detained 8 a if found ner A arsenal for treM battery or military undertaking of any kind the real tourist may excite RU dicion and no doubt many of the people arrested arc innocent but OCCA a spy ia usually of course ia liberated after inquiries foreign consuls arc apt to be much more energetic emphatic and positive when a government agent ia taken than they arc when the innocence of the parties held is so apparent it needs no proof in ordinary circumstances when it py a known he thereby become innocuous and ho knows it it discovered the impolite Is to forbid him to enter the country or to declare he cornea from a plague infested port or that ha a a aloma h catholic or jew POLITE the polito wais to offer him a guard or helpmate or companion the apy is then shown what he mut sec and as soon as ho has seen and reported the various military dispositions aro changed BO arat the information he obtains is orse than useless being actually the polite british way it take tha apy round the golf links or give him pegs of whisk yand tell him boft stories na he sits on a tool en joyin 1 interminable al trick ct then to bend or take him home a happy talkative man alth nothing to toll tant i what a kussian vessel calls at perun for water or russian themselves curious as to the forts aladen many are the dodges resorted to hy british agents in order to avoid being spoofed ofed by their bussian hota their common way is to hunt in coupler each independent of he other BO if one taken the other may diio ceca in getting through with tuo work this plan has other advantages the eastern races make adept spies nus agents when out of uniform letray their cal lingby being BO well in formed which sa unusual in cumla but it clever educated roan to de hect them and there are few among the clasa ol 01 people the agents frequent in the east tor they pretend to bo merchants veterinary burgeons Burg tons p and even vagrants in far east in the matter of eg japan has the game almost en to itself A japanese can readily become BO good an imitation of chinaman manchu or mongol that tho russian cannot identify him and the chinaman who doca will certainly not denounce him lie ran simulate ignorance almost im the russian spy is too vain to do and as merchant artisan or interpreter be can go everywhere then there are the the japanese amah apparently stupid and ignorant as a german goose herd is really as competent as the spy in taking notice of things that matter what a japanese doca not know ol 01 the kisslan military dispositions in manchuria Is not worth knowing and this knowledge like all careful ennion gc makes for ficare not war had iho british methods of espionage been ht ter there had hcan no fir in africa in since thai dale we have improved considerably but have yet much to learn |