The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 9, 1914, Page 2

ego eaten aeacor ie erm man Serseees Sees MO>R 2ZOnZcG ‘PANTAGES | ‘Shoot the Spy’ The Amazing ‘Narra tive of a Member of the German Secret Service; Tells How He Penetrated Hostile Belgium in the ‘This apy Med to Amertoe to he goveramente of twe wattons, Me Lucas | that scores agents are watching him stil This story wee scoured from him in | village In Pennsylvania. His story lacks Iterary qualttios, but tt ts filled with to- teresting and first-hand Information te ing the early developments of the war Tk ls the greatest story yet published About the present confitet tH The remaining are to | daily In The Star, If you aren't | the paper every day, call Main 0400, iroulation department, and | deliver tt te your home, DON'T WANT TO MIM A BIEN OM APTER OF THIS STORY PART Iii. (Continued From Yesterday.) At 6 o'clock that evening I was, }awakened from my heavy sleep to find two men entering my room. The Outside I could hear murmuring forward | Halt awake, alarmed, One }man spoke, H of the service, | the other of the General Staff, My | report had been reoaty We of the service ported direct | but through others, | We did not know who recelred re- ports. I was being paid a high jhonor—to have staff officers call }apon me. They had come for further de talls, For three hours I gave them }in detail all I knew of the situa |tton tn Liege. | You must go back,” said my superior, “We have arranged.” He explained that my position |the confidence the Belgian officer had tn me; that I was to claim his friendship and insist upon working for him. Also I wag given some thin slips of colored paper and | thelr use Was explained to me. “But how may I reach Lieget” I asked. have planned,” ho sald. They left me At 9 o'clock I met them as agreed. My exper the steady roar of troops going sekiom re American Working People Own the Savings Banks The confidence of the public ts of course necessary to the suc- cess of any bank. ‘The strictly Savings | Bank depends largely upon the working men and women, because !t fs organised for them. We start savings ac counts with as little as $1, pay 4% per cent on these savings, and withdrawals may tbe made st any time. They led me to where one of the | military planes was waiting 1 |never had been in an aeroplane, | and the prospect alarmed me, How jerer, I dared not show this timid | tty before my superior officers and | the under Meutenant and bis mech- }antctan quickly strapped me tn the passenger seat. After 15 minutes of sickness and [the alr (broben) and commenced jt lose fear. T saw many lights. I tried to speak to the under lentenant, but the roar of the motors was too | much. We came down tn a field, a mile | from Waremme, quite the rail | road, I learned rf in the night. We saw lights and heard } sounds not far away, and the un- | der Meutenant made great haste to | fly again | When he had gone I crept Into « DRAKE’S CAFETERIA starting to find my way to Liege. A nent": Sunday, Oct. 11, Drake's and ¢t an hour or more of cautious sign post. I was not far from will serve spectal lunc m. Yo oltcited. Liege, and, creeping into a hedge, {I slept until daybreak, when the sound of wagors and much noise jtold me ‘BA4 Madioon St. Ground ffeor leeation slong the road leaving the city |. Making haste I soon reached |Liege. There was no trouble. Citi crawling I reached a road and pres ently discovered an antomobile er. Houre 11 a. m. to 7:90 p. patronage is respectfully zens were departing in large num-| | bers and few observed me. | went to the Church of St. Jean, mo to establish a base than anything | else. I purposely addressed tnquir- les to several persons in and ‘around the church, to establish a5 /h4—and chiefly they cooked “in| *" Standard Grand Opera Co. 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Bhoes Seattle’s Two Big Union Stores WHERE YOU GET THE MOST FOR YOUR MONEY. 220-222 First Ave. S. 103-5-7 First Ave. S. room was in semidarkness. | in times of peace, | Many times} in Liege Was assured because of} fences of that night were trying.| eye shutting I knew we were in) citizens were passing! Guise of a Tourist. | identity In case the soldiery ahould question me, Then I set out to | find my officer . 1 I tnquired for him diligently and finally was directed to the Bvegnee fort and found him tn a group, 1 rushed upon him, beseeching his ald. { Truly my appearance was con vineing. Worn and exhausted I was, and besides the ride in the| aero and the night spent in the fields and ditches had not tmproved |my appearance, At first the officer cursed me and ordered me away, but several seemed touched by my pose of helplessness. I thanked him again and again and called him savior and hero and called down blessings upon him. . The other officers laughed and ked with him. “Billy fool,” “he sald, “go with the lothers and do not trouble me.” I pretended to weep and declared I had no place to go, but would stay with him, my *protector, “Keep him, Major,” laughed | French officer. T Jamp in the mud,” retorted the major, ("Je sante le reunseau,” Bvidently an idiomatic French/ joke.—Ed.) | “Well, give him to me then,” | a cook, m'sleu,” I stated. } It was arranged. My luck was greater than I had hoped. The Officéra sent mo to the kitchens under the fort. That day I saw! little, I cooked In the evening there was word that the attack was expected. | | was not permitted above ground, but tn the late evening I, with other civilian cooks, was drawn up and examined in the. commandant’s room. He told us we could go or stay, and that the fort never would sur render, but that we would die or conquer, Many went. Before re- turning to the kitchen underground | I saw and heard much. One of my missions was to learn | whether French and English troops) had reached Liege, and how many, I heard an officer complain that | the English had failed, and that the French were slow. Returning to the kitchea I weteet | a blue strip of the paper from my tobacco box, tn a little water, walk- ed to @ gun embrasure and tossed tt out with the water. The gun guard cursed me and I swore back. Five minutes later a) blue signal Mashed from far down) the face of the cliff, flashed biue and after a moment died out. The diue fire caused @ commotion) |among the sentries, I heard much} | scurrying. | I had went my first message to! the German army. It was that the French and British had not yet) come to Liege. The strips of paper hidden In my tobaceo box were chemically pre- pared atgnals. When damped, and after the water formed the reaction, they flared up like fires in various colors. I cooked my French officer's din ner. TI had hoped to assist in serv. ing the dinner at the offi meas table, that I miight hear more, but others did that. I had prepared a | pudding of rice and fige with « | sauce of my own. | | Most of those serving the meal were soldtore—a few had been hired | from among citizens by the wealthy j officers, but only two or three of |these were remaining, these be | canse of personal devotion to thetr | officers. | The cookery of the soldiers was | proper signal great pote for the privates | It was, I think, about 4 fn the} Under ground ft | rook and split There followed two | waa horrible. | days of horror, of which I neither | saw nor knew a thing, save that above me was a terrible racking noise. | Sometimes creat explosions shook jetand why morning that the cliff seemed to}, STAR—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1914. PAGE 2. SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT CREDITORS Stock of Wolf’s Men’s Shop combined with Palace Clothing Company’s $75,000 stock of Clothing, Hats, Read These Prices. SATURDAY | OF 10 A. M. 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Iwas @ signal that troops were retiring, Wether it was seen | do not know-—-I learned that a Ger- man-Delgian workman was execut ed an a apy charged with lighting the signal. Liege was quiet, save for the movement of troops. Yet tte ap pearance was terrible. I could not at the first, under. he city looked so range from a distance, concentrated much of their upon the gun works, and the! works of the city where st of Belgium's re made, offered the most strik ing feature of the sky Then it occurred to me what tt] © German gunners seemed to) The chimneys of the gun works,| cannon | ne—and | made| ost of them had been shot away | coffee at all times. 1 arrived at the hotel panting, ~|found my officer collecting things The underground nage tives |he had left tm his rooms at the de |the very cliff itself, We lion the side opposite | From gossip that drifted down to |us we knew the Germans had tried| to cross the river, and had failed.| We knew their shells had dam the gun casemente and that had been killed. We were not per mitted above ground | On the thirdyday T think the| shock deafened me. There was a terrific explosion and the story came that the magazine of Fort 2) {had blown up. We never knew | what ft was | On the fourth day the bombard-| ment ceased. The sudden silence was a shock. My head felt numb We shouted at ench other—-and |1aughed foolishly when we realized | } | | there was no need of shoutings. 1 We heard the Germans were) @rawing off and waiting for thetr| big siege guns to arrive. Tt was noon that day wheo an | officer came below. He gave quick | orders. } I learned that many troops/were| | detng withdrawn from tno city, and| | that the French engineerin: officers | j and some others who had been with |us were going with them, Whon the officer had gone I ask jed a gunner, whose arm had boen| burt, and who was acting as a kitchen helper, if my officer was going. I spent an impatient after. | | noon. | It was 6 o'clock when the wound. | jed gunner, who had inquired of his gun captain, told me all save the |regular garrison were gol He| had ‘sent word to my officer of my} |inquiry, Soon an orderly camo| commanding me to report to my of ficer Above ground, inside the works, |was a scene of terror, Two guns | were dismounted, wreckage strewed | | the interior. It looked terrible, but} for defensive purposes the works were unburt f | shell had exploded where ‘oom had been a rubbish | heap was all that was left luted my patron awkwardly dered me to attend to hi 1 two light hand cases. ving the fort pper 1) extracted a green slip n my to bacco and carried it tightly rolled serted hotel and cursing. He gave his bags into my care. I thought we were going to Brus sels. The Belgian troops withdrawn from Liege were retreating in that | direction. 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