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EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, October 22, 1918 \ a =—s ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Stories of Spies. Published Dally Excer< Sunday. by the Press Publishing Company, Nor. 83 to By Albert Payson Terhune ; | No. 69 -MME. LE BRUN, France’s War-Spy in German, RAL Ge ae Frecigent, 90 Fork Rew. . 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New footy d ing World), id JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. HEN tho present war began France's General Hea A TS quarters had in its employ a woman of unusual cle MEMPER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRPSS. Associated for repubticat WW ewetited 0 Te ae ARUN sities co, the, yoni fot seratinrelion, of 8 seme Sexpeteinn erness and attractive appearance. Her name appears on Paris court records as “Mme. le Brun.” ——___—__ $s Perilous and highly important work was at once : THE GERMAN REPLY. found for Mme. le Brun—work that called for frequent ‘ trips to Germany. No single disguise was good enough HE !atest German note is another characteristic German at- bo to serve on all such trips without exciting the German tempt to back up just so far as may avert the necessity of citbata as sonia aad te dilate alban ‘lig ill the Sy. crest possible disguise—by not disguising herself at all, Posing a8 an ardent German, she made her way into the enemy's country no less than thirteen times in all. On these trips she peffarmed , | varfous missions for the French Government, and performed them brilliantly. | But the most useful bit of work she did was the exposing of & traitor, | who, like Bolo Pasha and other blackguards, was pretending to be a loyal servant of France while trying to sell his country to the Kaiser. | _ Mme, le Brun hit on the trail of this scoundrel by the merest chance. In Berlin, during one of her dangerous,missions there, she won the confidence, of German lieutenant attached to the Secret Service nest of the Wilhelm. strasse. «© THE GERMAN NOTE eS Ce an en ec npn ABE TOA GRO GE te Boege SL 'B IE ae ' Half the document—the latter half—is devoted to a conciliatory plea for the new German Government as one reformed and respon: | sible to the German people in a degree hitherto unprovided for by ‘the Constitution of the German Empire. | ' This plea is designed to leave the impression that the demands of fhe Government of the United States have been fully satisfied in, that “the offer of peace and an armistice has come from a Government which is free from any arbitrary and irresponsible influence and is supported by the approval of an overwhelming majority of the Ger- By playing upon this Heutenant's vanity Mme. le Bran mai o naged to get man people.” him into @ boastful mood. While he was bragging \ , ‘ ‘ : ene About the excellency of the Prussian spy system ¥} It is olwiously the German hope that the pleasing impression left Falke Teo Much, i he exclaimed: ; by these assertions—backed by no suggestion of guarantee beyond the ban “In a trusted post in the French Government i +n 3 - fi is 4 man who has been in our pay for many years!” +} Eepewentations of a German Governnway wach has ceased to ot Mme. le Brun masked her eager interest and affected to believe that the ' itself Imperial and which has introduced certain reform measures in pees ey was absurd. The Heutenant reiterated it, Carelessly, almost mock. ; ‘ A ‘ ; ingly, she asked: 4h the Reichstag—will ease away the autocracy issue and, combined with “Who is this wonderful person who is serving the Wilhe! 1 : , | | & Imstrasse whily H adtirances of new orders given to submarine commanders and to, | he holds office in Franc ‘ The Heutenant became suddenly cautious, He answered, mysteriously:! “I dare not tell you. He: is too highly placed,” r Failing to coax the leutenant into revealing the name, and fearing to rouse suspicion by asking too many questions, she went back to France. Although she had not gained the name #he sought, she had'manuged to Generals conducting the German retreat on land, soften the heart of | . the President of the United States toward the real purpose of the Betman note, which reveals itself in the first paragraph: That purpose is to secure an armistice in the conditions of which i | ecure from the lieutenant the names of two women in Paris who were in the views and plans of the German high command shall find ex the sccret employ of the Wilhelmstrasse and who, she believed, might fui. i P ont nish a clue to the name she wanted. 4 { } . In accepting the proposal for an evacuation of occupied territories the German Government has started from the assumption taat the procedure of this evacuation and of the conditions of an armistice should be left to the military ad- visers, and that the actual standard of power on both sides in the field has to form the basis for arrangements safeguarding _ and guaranteeing this standard. | Is this anything but a clumsy effort to conceal the desire of the’ German Government to start an armistice conference in which Ger-! jnan Generals shall sit as representatives of a still unconquered, for-. midable military power? Is it anything but an attempt to save—by hasty tranaference to! tomnci!—a military prestige fast fading to nothingness in the field? | “The urinistice conditions to be fixed by the military advisers of; the Goverzment of the United States and the Governments with! Which it is associated will leave no room for the pretensions of a German command that does not know it is beaten, When she reached Paris Mme. le Brun reported at once to her chief, col, Zopt, what she had fearned. On the strength of her tidings the two womea mentioned by the German lieutenant were arrested, By questioning these scared spies Mme. le Brun learned the name of ; : the official who had given them the passports 4 nnn? enabled them to ply their trade in’ France, i Lrg ltl atid } le Brun knew that the arrest of these women Paras 3 : probably make her talkative lieutenant realize sh = herself was a French spy. Yet he was franticall: anxtous' to go back once more to Germany and learn certain vital facts foy her Government, Her statement, made later in court (and corroborated bs Zopf), runs in part as follow ‘ “I knew of the secret relations between a certain Deputy and CaiMauz, | I begged leave to return to Germany to clear up the whole matter and 4 the truth in every detail. But my chief, Col. Zopf, refused to let me go. Hg said 1 would be certain to be arrested and shot and that there was not ond j chance in a hundred of my geting back to France alive. In spite of this t entreated him to let me go there, But he porsisted in his refusal,” : Col. Zopf, in indorsing her testimony, added: he has been a loyal and devoted agent. Some costly errors have been averted by her visits to Germany, where she was in constant danger of ture and death.” caps een -- -—_ ---- — - — — —. -_—- — — — —— —— — e H ; 9.14% } . ' © The only “standard of power on both sides of the field” that can il h W . B Bi : a i ; | ide Dudley | Y By Roy L form the lasis of any “arrangements” is the standard of Allied, uci e t (G3 altress y y | € a ie a m 1 By Roy L. McCardem 7 : - _ ' fupremacy and certain Allied victory. Copyright, 1918, by Vrms Publishing Co, | “Wait a second, Miste \the geography, my friend. Then you| Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. speech-making begins, Hence I enjoy | know how much we sold, but we wer4 rh - A (The New Yo ening W | y . : (The New York Krening World.) them greatly. out for a record” — The G ay ont’, : | ¥ |'No matter what our friend Lady| would not display such ignorance, greatly cord’ _. The German Government’s proposal for neutral SORRY NODS, WEE GAY, don t you just love these | iaitiebraing here tells you, you ain't| “With that he beat tt outside quick. the grill room of the Hotel St.] “But in this case,” here the Pro-| “To make it or break it," murmured © fquire ints German submarine methods is an insult to American) ae CUED ONE 8 4 Lue) oot any license to talk about drug- | The other fellow didn’t have a chance ] Croesus, Mr, Jarr and Prof, Pon- | fessor sighed, “I must go on the Aring | the Professor in Mr, Jarr’s ear, Pe cile, the Waitress, as the) i. piondes at pie-counters, Tho|to think up anything to shoot back sonby Pomfret had escaped froin line and answer ‘Here!’ for duty! “We all remember Prof, Ponsonby {utelligence. Friendly Patron put his newspaper) \ «ning you know you'll have a| With, All he says was ‘That guy's|ths auditing of the accounts of the|calls, It's a performance which. || Pomtret’s delightful and erudite enwn. The judgment pronounced by the United States Government on sige usually are interesting,” he | :ittle war of your own on your hands | tog fresh.’ ’ Ladies’ Liberty Loan Drive Ne the sates as gal . man detests the thing ciation"— ° . shins ‘ . Cee. le . on't be the belligerents,| ‘Yes,’ T says. ‘The crazy thing| Cerise Room of the gilded hostelry, |he is paid to do, Wihio:™ ee j fierman submarine warfare is uncompromisingly on record for all) replica. Ree cuir ie cise alamaliting <auiwrace| | OURin waysip (in ray Slike poet? ||| PHUt Zeulatay teres Jacks” te atdedl pesca as ite Bette aa ime. The German Government made a singularly foolish blunder! ou spoke & parable” Tuelle) ar wis proud of Lily, He really|right in your argument, Pooh, what| said Mr. Jarr, “While the ladies are melodramatically, “and take care of | whispered aside to Mr. Jars, $ went o If you want to have a : t i th look at the big| does a nickel-tip guy know about| getting their accounts mixed up in| the old folks and the farm and I'll go| “LaSt week he inspired M Sad f eserved anc e) juok a ele e " ” fn assuming that the United States could be beguiled at this date regular jack-in-the-boxcar time, pune sage Mareen tari apepay enteral RoC PENCE obs |the Cerise Room you and I are on the off to the wars." lmiretencorets ae ply ai pie i iscussion of U boat crimes tated by) regular Corbett-Jefterson ot ¢ Rattlebrains| “He was pleased and proved to be| Blessed Isles of Somewhere, so t2, So saying, the Professor heaved|conclude our efforts b: into a discv n out crimes, delitin battles eirac tu lot of the}! didn’t for th ‘eb | y a felicitous en % } - heeuyd b el jar, but I'm pretty even balanced | fine fellow.” speak, where no skirt can pursue, another sigh and put out his hand in| address. Before we hear from Diseussion— in any direction, on any subject—is the thing, how- mut vintine et this woul be cael id don't fly oft the handfe too flu-; “Was he a nickel-tip guy?” asked | “It ix my favorite way of aiding the! Mr, Jarr’s direction, But in self- | wo will be entertained by the fam 4 sue abo 0 wa never saw Bite > ts a ‘98 scicy ; éver, yon slich the German Government now desperately reckons.) oo yen pours aa fie apitied in |eMt Twas Just about to teil the man | the Friendly Patron. jladies,” answer the Professor. | sacrifice and heroism Mr, Jarr was | Miss Niobe Braker-Hart, the cele- ‘ ‘ aaa alitary dociat “i Het in here |! 100K What he had started, when a! “Say now, you behave!” replied | "Getting in amlably, and getting oyt not to be outdone, |brated authoress of ‘A Treasury of. Jiseussion of any sort that may evade @ military decision. eae ee ae een ee ere | vaid-headed guy next to hit bursts | Lucio “That guy was in a quarter |quickly, It's also the way I like to! “Wither this hand,” he cried, as ho|Teurs,’ “The Armistice of yer | ae this morning, And it was all so) 08 or nothing corner and he didn’t have |attend lodge banquets and other grasped the Professor's, “rather than|and her Hi i ; . It woc't d frutile because no matter how they | forth | latest and greatest work, ‘ | Peyae: Neon ive See t! he says, ‘Let ‘&m the nerve to do the ‘nothing’ getaway, | deadly male affairs of the kind. I get |it should guide the plough while You, ‘The Altars of Despair.’ It giv | No clumsy talk of talf-surrender is going to save Germany from] argue it doesn’t have no effect on the ee iG erg at oe es ida he |As for his arguments, they were alia good dianer before I go to @ ban-|go to meet the foe afeld, Let uslgrent sleceun See Talat ing : f pment of the situation in Zee. | Maht the war on the ¢ side, A i a ral i is . 9 | 4 the full meaning and consequences of the victorious sweep of AUisa| Piece or a touat Rauaieete man's right; they did capture Lille, beshy Seis a and always leave before the fant for the old flag, Fred, side by | Niobe Braker-Hart.” } ¢ : H f nl ania viet aes ees ear Mid A very fat woman of fitt; a | scan armies toward the Rhine name is /but it ain't dn it with Paris w . . pe . ¥, arraye: yy and Afnerican armie % | ; trategical importance.’ You don't often go to these/i:. purple with lon, t —— +e “This morning a fellow with long| comes to strategical Import . t Fan a : : ge jet earrings 14 | hair sitting right next to where you're | "The devil it aln'tt* says the first acnelo i CLLECTLIONS tines.” saia tne protessor, dropping | which would caten in the creases in It begins to look as if the last German stand would be on lat toused aside his half a newspaper |ut, ‘Lille is right on the coast and the war story attitude, and he sniffed | her neck and jiggle up and down as the Dummkopf Line, ree he Jovery German in Europe knows the in a sort of inquiring manne |she spoke, arose, For so 1 that he had rescued from the floor, yG P By elen owlan fs é | large a os x to nobod cous the important thing. Now, | I only go when I have to,” said Mr. | woman she had a surprising! BELGIUM'S BILL er WLHANE - mine 4 i iy Ai 08 rs Ly ye Hag sen Ser hat wand Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World lrgrei hand haedetine conkoart bave| vole, BUDS SBim particular, but evidently aiming his | yu had sald Ghent, ah, th N . eee loge . . , N the love-game an ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of taeory to to return with you to the scene of You want t fi |voice at mo, says: Jive been a fair compariso © get this,” sald the ITH Belgian troops in possession of the Belgian coast and) «won, it looks lke Lille ts cap-| “The other squared around, ‘Say any man, ba My wife made me come, and Professor to Mr. Jarr. “This woman a portion of the Belgian-Dutch frontier, with King Albert) tured, | temme ask you,’ he said. ‘When they -— she wil punish me severely if I falter | alway reads from her vers lUbre wa + 44 Ali 1 fore hi teadil to th “L gave him one look, not caring | was getting close to Paris, did you When a man can open a car-window for his wife nd fall back,’ poetry.” . 0 Bruges and the Aliied forces pushing steadily on to the) oc nim, anyway. ‘Aro you|hear anything about this Lille? } without swearing it is a sign be is elther super-| “Yes," sald the Professor, “that| “Did she buy Liberty ‘Bonds?’ Stheldt, tle Belgian Government has already begun to figure up the speaking of the war or of the abduc-|you never. Well, wherein does the buman—or still in love. frock coat of yours smells so strong |4sked Mr. Jarr, i} damages Germany owes Belgium, tion of some beautiful woman’ est importance He, then? sOeees, of mothballs that'I know you aren't| “I understand she bought til) ahe ) re ae : o O« © latte we got é “L could see he wi ight, but it * 4 " called out these affairs often,” was hurt or h ‘ad y + At the beginning of the war Prussian arrogance trampled Bel- Te aN i. Ae ii is ™s wot i pe = narturey inal pesa ral Now taat women are beginning to regard niarriage a a Ged fash e Hated. ‘appy or both,” replied i fj ; : ; ly a he ple counter which asn't my plac r 8 “grat” men are| ot f : 0 , gium into a highway for Prussian armies. What Belgians have suf- \ouia sucgest you abduct. the matter so I just kept still, Lily as @ partnership rather than as a t, “It's givin’ off fumes like a gas at-| “Then I'll take two earfuls of her : fered at ‘ie hands of the invader—the ruin of their cities and the’ “‘suy,’ ho says, “what are you Jab-| went back to the pie counter and beginning to look forward to it as a aL Instead | 1.04," he replied. “It was a sad day | vere libre,” sald Mr. Jarr, t Qealruction of their property, the war levies imposed upon their, bering away about? 1 mention that | seemed satistied that she wasn't be- of @ prison, and a vocation instead of a visitation. Lever set myself back the good money} And he composed himself to suffer ie mekruction 0 iF property, BM ponee : wpON ‘ © town ef Lille is captured and|ing deeply insulted, Well, the first — I paid for this floorwalker’s regalia, | for the good cause, ; 1 1 the t ; 1 industry an! their savings, the outrages committed against civilians, pin, away you put in with some fellow was a smooth one, He waited To a married woman all the Kaiser's peace offers 7 1 jadn't a frock coat I couldn't be — al depo i ) elgi —4 x " rie-counter dr Hui e had all his cakes it . i “mornii ade came, fo o a 4 s i the brutal deportation of Belgians of both sexes—is a shameful record pian to get rid of a piece unter d t il wi had ath i i ikee eaten and sound splines Ue, fost nognalbiene 3a ning made to came, for I uadereinnd it Children Made Plaything t set down for all time upon the blackest page in history. store blond. Now, I'd suggest’-+ ug ed up his check and his after” promises to which she is so accus' od. you can't come proper y' needn't come got in, Bho had Then he glances at his argu- ae at all.” of First Kimberley Diamond region | mentator and Next to the woman who always keeps him waiting nobody gets on a= “It's all right for YOU," sald the i: first diamond discovered in qualand, South Africa, was “Right there Li Such reparo | | ion as Germany can make must be exacted—not there daly. wok 1p i ly in mone caught the in’ on f only in mone i y, but, if need be, in machinery and in labor. Belgium of pies and ove wan’s nerves quite so much as the woman who is always “waiting” for aim, Professor; “but look at me. I'm paid stored, though it cost the working power of a tenth of ° é > e 1 Piss) to uttend these affairs and you're not. rs following the war, Justice) Pirate's Hoard Lays Off Coast of Newfoundland How would you like to be in my she come ‘I'd advise you to have a look at should be + found by the children of a Germany's }opulation for the ten y , ‘ues ) Somehow a man seems to measure @ woman's ability to make him ae muieh farce who for a time used it { : 2 ; ' ; talo handed down from;mainder of his life to spending his ace lor a plaything, The sto i Gemands that Ypres be rebuilt though Berlin meanwhile become the OAS Seen’ | miney Eh fOAred to vend his for. | abby by the number of men she has succeeded in making miserable. |" 1. Cuestion was unanswerable, Nair ig See s i ne was sent | dilapidated for lack of repairs ‘ather to son along the Newfound ii aireetly to. rance, where it, There {8 nothing lke @ reputation as a heartbreaker or a few failures in|, Ja.t ana Prot Pomfret sighed Ds way Where its true nature / " ete J land coast during the past cons ojicit ho seized and turned into tho marriage to increase the number of proposals a woman receives, lye ,| Was recognized, and it was subse- {°” Let brave Belgium make out her bill, The Allies and the United | tury and a half is true, a vast store treasury of the kin > he placed it | Marrae' - BEE Baa? PoE ere aiy Fete SUSHHE seat to Paris: where: 1f paid ; ci it ji » weceit, ; of gold and precious stones lies many |on board the Primrose and de- i jattio, ty Bi vac at | for 00, Researches States will O. K. it and see that it is duly received and paid. oe Fae An BE 8 she en patched that vessel to Quebee, So uncertain {s marriage that to be sure of weataering it, one |to receive hard and reproachful glares | soon followed, pak) peti Pde, a af Bay of Islands, The treasure went Ri: was h purecg & i Ne ¥ranoy should go into it figuratively carrying a fan, a fur coat, overshoes and a fron. their respective wives, unearthed in various places in "The 15,000 German soldiers who voluntarily interned taem- |to the bottom when the ship Prim- |i then proceed to Quebec, where SUnshade, It was nite a Hen} th the leien Griqualand West, with the result that selves in Holland had probably heard of the celebrated Dutch | rose was driven upon the rocks and | he could claim his fortune, and, after pease I ee ctatel tee thn inne | forty-seven yeara ago the country of Treat! battered to pieces by a heavy gal, | a time, return to Paris, posing as one All a woman asks in this world is justice! But what the average man | #ild@d St. Croesus Hotel for the wind-| the Griquas, a mixed race. sprung reat) fina who Had accumulated vast. wealth : 1 ing up of the Ladics’ Liberty Loan ; —_—— P ] 3 has to have in order to be even a little happy—is mercy! i |from Dutch settlers and native | According to the story, the vessel in honest endeavor, In the course of ow 01 ’ | ’ was fairly laden with tho rich plun-| time the Primrose reached Gagpe Drive were In a condition of nervous) women, was formally annexed by LACHRYMAE CROCODILI. |der accumulated by M. Duplicx, ihe| Bay, where her commander was spent: bis life tm trying to discover perpetual motion— peaegyey from Raving 10 add up sev. Great Britain. Diamond hunting w , ‘When blood-dro; rom ‘gon’ | Governor of Mauritius, during along | informed that Quebec had been taken , era! columns of figures, at first confined tc the banks of th en bl pe £41} fi the Gorgon's head |gareer as a privateer preying upon|by the English a month before. Thi ent hers in trying to discover @ perpetual emotion! “Ladies,” said Mrs, Stryver, the| Vall River, but in the year of the Each Poison serpent bred. . | Zaglish commerce Having acquired | vessel then sailed for Newfoundland, | @ — * -— Chairwoman, “we have a great treat | British occupation mines were ed stesurt.e Baler? tart Proc ar gt lia ameaesu nce gee metre mariage aane eds wanna ater marcas | wor or wn uernn, ine ato ua Vast ede : . teart [se piracy ing” which later became knows as ‘RO and-davate the rex lon the teats of the Box -at-lalande, tenlangnh . ond mlse ware a suscean i dows Siberian, wis