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Show GERMANY'S MASTER SPY Three years ago Georg Steinhauer spent a night in Buckingham palace, shook hands with King George and was the friend of many prominent Englishmen, for he was a member of the suite of Emperor William when he attended the unveiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial in 1911. Since then he has been the head of the spy system sys-tem in Great Britain and the most sinister foe of that country. He sits in an office in the palace at Potsdam, the center of a web of espionage that covers England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and it is doubtful if any other living man knows as much about those countries as does Herr Steinhauer. The devices originated by Steinhauer Stein-hauer to aid the activities of his 'sub-ordinates 'sub-ordinates are too numerous to dwell upon in any detail. It was he who invented the system of signaling by automobile and bicycle headlights from points on the English or Scotch coast to submarines or other vessels in the North sea. It was he who realized the value of disguising spies in the uniform of boy scouts or scoutmasters a scheme which has caused all kinds of trouble to Baden-Powell.' His genius found a way to signal by hidden wireless from the very heart of London, to conceal stores of petrol for German Ger-man aeroplanes in the Scottish Highlands, to bribe road builders to construct con-struct hidden highways in direct line from one strategic point to another. He stops at no obstacle, and the means placed at his disposal are practically limitless. Despite the fact, that practically every word of instruction sent to spies in Great Britain emanates from Steinhauer, his means of communication are so guarded that only one letter bearing his signature has fallen into the hands of the English authorities since the outbreak of war. |