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62 PEI ST SEES eS 50 ASIEN — THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918 Belgian Girl Turned Spy To r lease German Lover, Found in British Lines pyomen Capt. David Fallon, M.C., in His War Book,‘The Big Fight,” | Telis Thrilling Story of Girl’s Capture, Made Only After He Had Shot Her Lover During Melodra- matic Scene Staged in Ruined Houre. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. E story of a girl spy, a tale of | ve and treachery in the house of war, is one of the most interesting and thrilling chapters in} the newest man's ent of her trickery while ho ‘as rosting with his regiment, the Oxfords and Bucks, near the little shell-wrecked village of St. Dlolso, in Belgtum. “Our most welcome visitor,” he ‘writes in “The Big Fight,” “was a young peasant girl, decidedly attrac. tive because of raven hair and very blue eyes. She brought us the con- tinental mail, she served us with home newspapers, she sometimes brought us roast fowl and other homelike edibles to enhance our sol- @ier food. She was frequently in- trusted with our letters for mailing. “About this time became remark- able the accuracy with which the Germans were planting shells along the road of our very rest camp; also how neatly they seemed to be able to time their shots and how accurately along the roads which the supply ‘wagons travelled toward the front Mnes. If it had been guesswork it would have been uncanny, and nono of us for a minute believed It to be guesswork. « “One evening a private of my pla- toon came to me with the infgrma- tion that he had happened upon the girl seated in a small dugout in one of our trenches most studiously studying a paper spread upon the top of the basket in which she usually Drought edibles she sold us in camp. "This private had the good sense to gaunter along as though he had ob- served nothing. I warned him to continue to say nothing and went looking for the girl. “1 observed her in her free pass: age in our lines, joking with our) solicrs, emiling, affable and, you would say, the most simple minded and jinocent of maidens, She never) asked questions, but if you watched) hee you would find her standing near &® group of our men who might be discussing our own immediate af-) fairs—our position, what they had learned or guessed of their com- ize book about the workd strite, “The Big Fight,” described by Capt. David Fallon, M. C. “The Big Fight” is the sort of book to send your soldier boy, for in intimate, humorous man-talk Capt. Fallon tells of an exciting and unusually varied military career. An Irishman of fighting stock, with years of dis- tinguished service in India, and other years as a military instructor in New South Wales, Capt. Fallon went trough the terrible Gallipoli campaign, fought) In scores of trench battles on the western front, did) scout duty back of the German lines, commanded a tank, acted as aerial observer and bomber, spent three days in a shell hole suffering from half a dozen seri- s wounds after a pitch-and-toss bomb game with two Germans, and lly received the Military Cross from King George. It fell to his lot to unmask the girl spy and write the tragic de- Stealing up to the Ifghted win- dow, Capt. Fallon goes on, “I saw the girl in closest conversation with « man of peasant type, They were going over a small bundle of papers on @ roughly hewn table with the lamp between them. They were so interested in the papers that it was obvious the opportunity was as good as I could expect to take them by surprise, So I stole away from the window and to the back door of the house, which opened directly into this room. “I managed to open the door with- out alarming them, but was so in- tently keeping my eyes on them as I crept into the room that I stumbled over a loose brick in the floor of the shellwhaken house, Man and girl leaped to their feet. He lost no time reaching under his blouse for a pis- tol, But here I had him clearly at a disadvantage—my own automatic was already in my hand. I shot him straight between the eyes, “Tho girl shrieked and started toward me in fury, She had no| weapoh, so I thrust my revolver {nto my holster and grappled with her, She fought vixenishly for a few minutes, but then suddonly rolaxed in my arms and began violently sob-| bing. After that she very quietly ac- companied me to headquarters. “Once over her fit of fury, she made no pretense that she had been other than a spy in our camp, But she said the man had compelled her to do this work, She was a native of Belgium but of mixed Flemish and German parentage. She said the man was a German—she had known him| to be all the while—but she loved! him, and it was only her love that | had persuaded her to act as inform- ant for him, Now that he was dead, | she said she did not care what be- came of her, what punishment was| given her. “You can kill me too, T aldn’t| ke to do the things I did when the) | | erg 7 me aoe WHILE WAITING FOR NEWS FROM “OVER THERE” TO SEND FROM “OVER HERE”—THE hiss Play ONeill “Brother” Fagan Auxiliary Mascot ts. Theresa. Hughes, Widow with three Sons in the service SER ae Catherine Gref Mr and Mr, John Fitzsimmons Bro, T. Fitzsimmons Mrs, William Fagan of the ‘Old 69th”? Backing Up Boys at Front , Before Kinging Turned Sour THEY’ RE BUSY HELPING MAKE GOOD NEW THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. Their Service Flags Mean Service at Home Too! Mothers, Wives, Sisters and Sweethearts of the Boys of the “Old Fighting 69th,” Members of the Women’s Auxiliary to the 165th Infantry, Are Backing and THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1918 Leinncwn sh Ap ORR BRAC AIR A RTE WY N MD ia WIM, \\ S\N “ That “Happy as Kings” Stuff _ Was Dope Measured Out A Barefoot Greek Dancer in a Briar Patch, or a Fat Man ina Thin Telephone Booth Are Merry Little Gigglers Com- pared to Kings To-Day Who Have Less Influence in the Fun Department Than a Centipede With Wet Feet. By Arthur (“Bugs”) Baer. right, 1018, by ‘Phe Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). HE bird, who flopped State’s evidence and said that the world is so full of a number of things that we all should be as happy as kings, | was slightly crippled north of the earpieces and should have worn a crutch under his chin. Being as happy as a king is equivalent to being as joyful as a fat man in a'thin telephone booth. Nowadays, a king is as merry as a barefooted Greek dancer in a briar patch, If a king tries to register fun and amusement today, his features tangle up into a puzzle of wrinkles which looks like a plate of spaghetti with the colic. When a king tries to grin the result looks the way a pewter nickel sounds when you drop it into a dish of hot fat. The poet who wigwagged that this old terrestrial berry is so coagu- lated with a number of thinks that we ‘uns should be as gleefulish as kings made it rhyme all righto, but that’s all. Moving the clocks up.a yard may have swindled the cuckoos, but it didn’t gyp the birds who live from hand to mouth and get most of it on their vests. A kink has about as much influence in the fun, sport and amusement department as a centipede with wet feet. Kings are gradi ully being aimed for the exit and getting scarcer than changes in a boar ‘ing house menu. Page Czar Nicky in some Siberian one-armed lunchroom and find out} Wears each foot in a violin case and parks the result out in the just how merryish the corrugated| "Middle of the aisle, world full of things affects him. | bite Bate Cousin Nicky is about as joyable as| Patriotic tango lizards who a one-eyed armadillo suffering from] ave offered to enlist in the six dollars’ worth of reversed tele-| Terpsichorean Corps of the {phone charges. Ask King Manuel] @™Y. holy ng how it feels to have the old razz- verry slipped fato your royal pay] envelope. Manny is just as happy | as a worm who has just grabbed an early bird by the beak. Happy as| Snappy clothing for snippy young men with lapels on the trousers, hooped around with belts so that they look as if ja king. Yea,'bo! How would you| ‘ey Were built by a cooper in- |like to have a life membership in| . Stead of a tailor, and with seven |the Down and Out Club with all! vers of buttons on the sleeves, your dues paid up! You said it, ares The ungentlemanly fish who beats you to @ subWay seat just | Just cable the Kaiser, the Sultan or Emperor Charles, and you will discover that this jagged edged| When you were going to beat aa |world full of things makes ‘em as| ld lady to it \joyishable as Columbus discovering| eno |that three aces beat two pair. | The janitor who never alloys J lof. course, it's those birds’ own| J#niting to interfere with |fault for trying to carry a bundle| Pinochle, by the string, but the guy who pabed The family on the floor below who poke their heads into the dumbwatter and listen to what you are eating for supper. Rien ve grabs a crocodile by the wrong end| can't expect the crocodile to de- mand an encore. Incidentlly, both ends of a crocodile are the wrong end You might paste that in your |fedora, becaus Hable to have little crocodiles of your own| some day Some of the other Il’ things in this world, on old bunions, ie baie New Oxtords The flapper who uses a mire ror to powder her nose, and who could use her nose for the min ror if she didn’t powder It 60 (deleted-by-the-censor) much, eo 8 © which are supposed to irritate us into such spasms of jo- viality that we won't care whether school keeps or not, are The tious manner in which one-armed Inches butter their bread The ®ear-sighted old man who takes his six-year-old kid | to the circus four times because | the old man is nearsighted and eer yer didn’t see it all the first three The Congressman who sug- | ¢imes, gested that we add another Ne | as month to each Lo That bird | ne taxicah drivers who are must own a row of houses and | giways going on strike at the lease ‘em by the month. wrong time. They never have ; “ sat & | ° - »® enough sense to launch a strike ‘ ns, Ever one had me » » 0 7 7 Thi ;, " h Ne, 4q ; } " a c| 1 y 7 see sie veer fee. bed | ten in pear onan eee Boosting Third Liberty Loan to Make Their Quota $2,000,000. Tho goat with 40 toah of | when your gi makey 700 gui - 7 . auld, | > AGu'kcatinwe aiihaal eh iia MM ‘Netll 8 “He era er ‘sf took | courtesy and a yard of feet who one, Marie. sore tnere | RUE Would do anything my man By Hazel V. Carter. EC areas arid fetta pean egret psa titd Nee SEAN Retreat ja pm jcutineicacbanariaeaeinanecnitiiciass “ ssible th ah he , ee a ‘lad Beaty ure than they have ‘ h ler than the other boys | fo! en to carry, we ¢ ‘aq eu Bi Fea Ri mle nee bares a He could make me do VER in Pleardy the boys Of) sie4, diennings's son Charles 1s alat the training camp that they called |eupplied with candy, tobacco, | h R 66 \X ] h as evar, as Americans 04, it te "bad | Capt, Fation found tn tho dead He ay a pdenke MUS Corporal of Company IX of the 165th, |him ‘Lite Maurice'—but ho came |candies, ete,; 825 dozen khaki hand-| | ce eason y oD 0 dead up one of the gamest t fi i \ p ‘ ol ; u tters in »' . “ There is plenty of propagandajout on top just the same—and 1) kerchiefs, hemmed, and 800 comfort phe al oe ath ye eye ety hand. 1 de npr ipeeee ey aerer pe ese bo Woe Mae | one abt Ass] scatise seautd sat tu luended' ol dnaw he Wil Bean. da thecmenn Mite lurcutied) Netniog ane eect to] ‘aided to follow the girl.” ese neues aia cst mory, No, 68 Lexington Av the | feighten us" she suid, “but we pay time I'm golng to strive Just as hard {individuals from the auxiliary, for| Scientific Facts Applying to Questions You Should ie wal fir : movements and trench) Women's Auxitiary to th¢ hIn-| yo attention t w to put Liberty bonds over the top.” |the boys are considered all “oug| 4 And Capt. Fallon noticed, first, that) relief; also other Information of mil-| tantry-—-mothers, Wives, + ETL Oe a canaunarto teria sti tage ya i D. peat ' hi Be Able to Answer. i hoor | y impo aye gp le % i sap " that we will be promp 1 if Others of the auxilia members ys," and the supplies were sent to = Ce M * cg ee bee sob di a hi Be Ne oe kirl SPY) swethearts of the boys « ne “Old * boy wonhaa A who are working the booth are|Father Duffy for equal distribu W hy Does a Stick Appear to\W hy Do the Stars “Twinkle”! saw her steal into a roofless house, | pigeor 4 camouflaged cote tn the . pe 4 of os vawttn | re 7 \ n Theresa Hughes, a widow with| The mergingsof the various regi-| Bend When Put in Water? : twinkle, Th peru ne oe figh wwe Kk » thelr bo: with ) nt , s pc: Ite | * Inkle,” They only se 10, Bude Gestroyed by gunfire. Stil, helruined house. For an infinitely eee eee teen UP N James B, K : 1 ne sons, James Bernard and | tents into the 165th has necessitated HPN Nght pa Raa Tae They only soem to, nflnltely | ay auxiliary quota of $2,000,000 in 1 ‘ cen ie Tee a SMeANIGALIGE: GAG. tense and this if the reason why; was not sure that she might net be smaller offense against milit rl cikeiay ease ton cha of t Walter, in service; Mra, John J. Fitz-|continuous organization, and mem. dium to another, as for eX-|mne stars are suns which ure con. @tetugee, unable to find bdetter|the Germans stood Edith ADI NONI night, ‘Tacked on the booth simmons, whose son John is a mem-|bers are still working to get in touch | ample, from glass or water tol jtantiy throwing off ght, Just atone queriers. But as a leht appeared | against a wall and shot her; but this! gro wetching the dally casualty tit reer’ Of ME , +? i |ber of Company Li Mra, William Fa-| with famities of new boys of the/air, or fram air or gtass to water, thelgun gives us light, and when this light dh the {nterior of the house he heard | Beigian girl apy, when tried, excaped [Are weeeine Mo dally casually list inesidg st tho | which iat gan, whose husband is a Sergeant 165th to tnelude them Iu the eo-|rays of leht change their courses strikes tho air which surrounds the deeply significant sound—the coo-| with a sentence of twenty years’ for names they hope no! ee; SOME) ne had died bravely in action ch}in company L and who has three |operative work. thus making them seem to be bent/oarth jt meets many objects—little a P! venty years’ Ln-) of them are wivos who look eagerly hitth ! 1 “I ai | ———— or broken prays light from 1 f {ng of carrier pigeons, much used prisonment + ; eas 17 little childre Miss Elizabeth | yo ee in teat vecean [Particles of dust and other things al- arati age “The Bis IN F i for letters from husbands already I couldn't do « e but tol Ht Miss Kathleen O'Neill, Mr. 1 the: part Of S08. etox @ water) ways floating about in it. The light in this war, as in earlier ones, for) “The Big Fight" 4s piblished by| wounded: others are mothers—some | Lae ie put, to.) Hu “yyy eaplon ae aire How Newfoundland Won) tako a aitterent direction n the} é esd, comariunicaticn. WJ) RVall ae On | work tg support the other boys who] t Miss Catherine Gref, Mrs. ——_— What Defective Ammunition May Cost of whom are dressed ta deep mourn jing in memory of the son who has | y {are fighting,” Mra, Clar rt would be inn thing else . Fitzsimmons and Miss Mary Tully. | “Brother” Fagan, the four- ear-old Rank of Dominion. comes to us in the form of rays from the stars, and some of these rays x the appearance of |strike particles of various kindg ju rays from the part which is out of the water, giv! , ; ee NE of tho brightest pages in| preaking or bending at the placeltne air and are thus interfer r jalready given up his life for the) nut taking up the cause wher mascot of the auxillary, is ono of the|C) the history of the British colo-| where the air and water meet, It 1s, Ity u are looking at a That ny Ey A eel cause, |had to leave off. Seeing b »| Liberty Loan boosters at the booth. of course, the Nght rays which ome distance away v UPPOSE that & machine gun fa/munit " wo Hid be consuming almost But whether they are watching for | u : » ‘ ee ar daais s genes nies is that dealing with the |of course, the Hey ore hich Are | some distance away and there par, lots supplied with ammunition which|two minutes in getting rid of the! here, Just as he looked when hi od | “My Sergeant daddy has gone over is ¢ Newfoundland in| Pent and not the object Itself. of boys and girls or men and women le 1 per cent, defective, That|jams. It is evident that in two{Rews from the front, or whether|1¢ wait for me at the station at Camp|to shoot the Kaiser,” he says; “won't| "°° sacrifice of New ane IN|" “mnis bending or changing of the/running past the window, one after does not seem very serious. One per | minutes’ time tt would be possible for they have heard the worst, they | Myjils—it seen spur me on to|you buy a bond and help him tho present war, and in recognition | natn of light rays is called refraction. |the other, rapidly, it will make the cent. is such a amal! factor, But con-|the side having poor ammunition to|aren't idly waiting or mourning. | even greater endeavor.” The sale of Liberty bonds, how-| of that service this, the oldest of the} If you place @ coin in a glass of water |light in the window appear to twinkle, sider the question a bit more closely. |low 4 position of great sinategic| They're backing and boosity With) Mrs, Clarkin has collected $1,200] over, is only a part of the work that] British colonies, has been given the) 8° that 1t may be viewed obliquely | The tuning is due to the interfer- A machine gun fires 1,000 shots aj value, | every ounce of American energy, And I ni | , , m4 a ., ou can apparently eee two coins--a | ence which the rays of light encounter . ) Aberty bonds & her own|the Women's Auxillary to the 165th] title of the "Dominion of Newfound- | ine ~ . fi ; | } : s through the surface of the | while travelling towal , minute. Detective ammunition willl NO HALF WAY MEAGURR tho totals at “Liberty Land,” where | friends before 1 in the work| Infantry has been doing. ‘The mem-|iand,” saya Popular Mechanics, | Small one thimi al the eusuee oe Te | wile oe thea be wee the eye, ioe ~ bn Bee gee nin aut | NDDR a “sketchy little things |e war esiiblt te belog held, have bership totals almost 600; they have] The aturdy p of this land havo | Mea through the side of the glass ali eng got Toduatrial "paca eee each jam, says adap exhibited by Jones thera hange| ready gone up Into six Ngures, | A. O'Neill, ono of tho| worked together during the winter] Sivem more than 10,000 men to the/ "TV gue only to the absolute} ——-———ee— Miirinin” fine cor oant of 1,000 |e 10.1 4 printed eard which bears the} “We haven't time to wait for bad | the booth, heard yester-| for the Interest of the boys, and their] WAM Including those in the Now-|snoioie that rays of light change LEADS IN SOMETHING. Mis teams, cach taking ten seconde to | Words \news," Mra, FB. J. Hennings, Prost >» Was at work « hooks show the following results: y ae sled bese i their direction in passing from one| ‘well, Johnny's attained distinction @traighten out, would require 100 sece| , De not touch with canes or um-|dent, said yesterday as she stacked|bonds that her brother, Maurice| One thousand eight hundred dol- a " math nest hew name will not | (ming to another, and on this prin-|in school at k SUE Saiss Insiond of delivering | pealiaa” |up Liberty bond receipts. “Our boys | O'Netl of Company*K, had been|tars’ worth of wools has been bought| materisily alter Newfoundiand’s | cle of the rays of light our optical) "That so? What is itr? 1,000 shots 4 minute the machine gun tye ¢ don't have time to stop and think | wounded and kn 600 needy families of| seve Cast hye ca) hick vee inatruments inojuding the microscope, Pe asap teaeer fone tome anee De a ect = . : BDpeD, e # On : " - ag | SOVernment, is bee the telescope, the camera and eye- 8 at he ly est boy with the 1 per cent. defective am | Sbout what might happen, and y o| Ob, but he will recover—I ku soldiers have been cared for; 87! uveral in form, glasses, are based. clase."—Detrvit ree Press, { '