The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1919, Page 20

© ete Seen ns so lee Be RY oe THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1919 Women Spies ! and Spy-Catchers - scribed by a Member of the British Secret Service By Marguerite Mooers Marshall yor an ren in Paris, working under the German Secret Ser EI vice, by means of a chess puzzle nearly succeeded in betraying the ” ro front only a year before of women who play the most Whale system ¢ the end of the defenses on the we s one of the ta 4 war game of all brought to America by Nicho ant Everitt, himself formerly one of the most bril British Secret Servic members of Some of evements of that service will be disclosed to a York audien e fascinatingly mys! spy-catchers that 1 asked bim when I talked with him at the Hotel Martinique. In the enthrating tales of E Phillips Oppenhelm, Clarence Herbert New and Jobn Buchan {t is so often a beautiful girl who finally lays her Bande afen the valuable plans of the fortifications, or 9 sinister, yet en chg@eting acventuress who deludes some innocent attache into telling her Al. Mr, Evewitt's tories of women fn the Secret » perbaps would NE quite eauiefy tie exacting stand ard of the makers of internationa murigne {n fiction. Hut the Advén posted or delivered by hand at the s club, However, we rooms of the ¢ decided to intercept that puzz tween the time it left the embassy bas tures of tb Ac and the Chess @od the time t should reach the clvb, 1 | We did ae Puzzle te wciiing enough for mom of us. "We nd apparently an ordinary t ’ chess puzzle, which seemed to have “It waa in tL Mr. Everttt be- r been clipped from a newspaper, The | chances are that the Germans hid ar | ranged for its publication, to make It look more harmless. But early in tle war the French authorities had confis- cated several secret maps and pluns of France made in the country by Ger- | man spies. One of these mapsa—which the Germans did not know was in gan, “that some of us noticed thet a tea as laid out in squares, exactly like a chessboard. “On this map the captured French puzzle was laid. And it was found that in the puzzle the pieces were so placed as to indicate on the map- chessbourd the location of every unit of the French line of defense—as, for NICHOLAS EVERITT. amount of money] club at the neutral capital the enemy snore money than she could pos-| would have known the plan of the sibly earn, Nor was its ouree im-] French defense-as seen by the cap. mediately traceable Bo we begun! tured « to #tudy her actress who entertained bim se kindy “We found she had completely | im the hospital!” fascinated an attache of a certain] “And what,” I asked with hardly neytral embassy. We also found| restrained excitement, “happened 5} M posed as an intense patriot, visits | ber?” ing the hospitals and entertaining) “That is the sort of question to the wounded. Then we noted she which we secret agents can never was in the habit of spending an un-| give too definite an answer,” replied usually long time singing by the| Mr. Everett bedside of a certain German aviator,| ‘Shall we say that the lady was who had been brought down wound-|éliminated from future activities?” 1 | uxxestod Phat, he agreed, “ts an admirable ed and made a prisoner while fly- ing over the Allied lines *0f course some of us were watch- | Way of putting it, I am reminded of ing the attache, ax Well as the actress. |@0 Occasion in my own life when, We soon discovered he was manife ing an extraordinary interest in chess. A. little more investigation dis the fact that his nd the actre posed as a chess enthusiast, and that he had taken jt up in order to play wih her The next thing we learned ub . wes that she had persuaded him to|bave OMly one thing to say to You séhd a certain chess pu: which she et is buried agyured him she could not solve, to @ tained the most expert chess players | ® “ port that, bandit who had attempted to hold me Everitt two othe: enemy secret se! Reecte et ons oe inna eas wsian dancer. "I followed her re hs wats aha es the | f70m Petrograd,” he remarked, “and fabalge the pieces ag {#ithough 1 lost ber once or twice I She knew, naturally, that embassy |Ployed in the bunting of big « 4 Sad Ge frontiers aca 1806 ng Abead Of ber, soon pi ealed 1 ness In {ME Laid avodta ie A , to the F , uch t pital of W7 and y * her course | noted a very curious EVENING WORLD \ng-that within w short time Zep 5 VUZZLES, bon each camp she had visited Speculating in Oil, Ther went to the north of Eng s and and started the same thing, OF By Sam Loyd. course we apprehended her and she ne es ll we ea spies du wus pu \ txt A replied. gallons, M fluently and who had frst sii ow f ever ach woman | egeb hauid, } for usually we ir 1 by two ajl but one \ ne | women done in 1 the enemy nove remained ut ‘ ” A nox, 3 woman aus fee ell ey ral pected of secret servies activity came ing price 4 ne Welle jwithin his reach be met swift death n night on he accidental ANSWER TO MARKET BASKET Meer women: Mes ; st costs the cousumer $4 Is have a it part to play d when | basket at presget price Were he to 4 eb jon is roused in them, Peoeive 1 1-3 bBMkets for one-third less they show more deep cunning in # money, $1, “4 he could Oj it for $2, pet service activigdes than any man. 4 tach eae ——— ous methods and | » next week by Mr. Everitt, But it was| about the actual accomplishment of the women eples and | NO, 2—SILHOUETTE SHOWS SHIP IN DIAGRAM NO. 1 AS U BOAT COMMANDER THINKS HE SEES DIAGRAM BELOW SHOWS THE THE DELUSION, <a fille. nn me TRUE DISTANCE AND COURSE OF SHIP French posseseion—represented France | POSITION OF U-BOAT A example, the pawns might be used to indicate infantry reserves; knights, the air service; queens, the supply sections; kings, the artillery; bishops, the hospitals—and one castle for gen- eral headquarters! If that puzzle had fallva into the hands of the German certain actress in Paris was spending| Spy undoubtedly planted in the cheas Copyright, 1919, by The (The New York Kveneg World.) HE inside story of the camou- Haging of ships has been re vealed by the expert charged | with the task of saving them from | the submarine peril, Tt ts a story that will shatter many of the pet theories on the subject held by sailors as well as landsmen, and it doubtless will surprise some of the baffled submarine commanders to know they were victims of mechani- | cal hypnotism, When camouflage first ree Vunkmiing Uo, ator and transmitted to the against the undersea craft, it was the on that it involved pa: ing With some dead color, ike bat sbip gray, to make (be ship more or less invisible increasing numbers, looking ships began to appear in New »ked @ second looked like a paint factory struck by lightning. rubbed their eyes and | st. [after a sojourn in a certain wild and meuntatnous district, fifteen reporters sed [came to ask mo about a published re- ting with a plate! |through my pocket, 1 had killed a ‘Gentlemen,’ 1 told them, ‘1 then shrugged its colle visible than ever, it enough to curtail, One was line, Yot t disguised by a background of | camouflag Ninishing checkers, and by “broken | not trying nes” of white and black j ferry boat °| No. 4 is perhaps the simplest demon. | at the “| oF | It illustrates that things are not al-j Ways what they seem. ‘The letters as! | placed actually are in perfect align [ ment, a’ can be proved by measuring any alde with a ruler or bit of card- | bourd, Yet to the eye they appear to | be dancing # Jig {m jand uw log lying diree the subs | road could be accomplished is ve optical Ulusions arranged vy| How Camouflage Made U Boats Miss THE ENEMY CAP% PERISCOPE AND HOW THE SPEED—A LITTLE TEST FOR’ EVENING Study the Pictures and See How Easily the Eye Is Tricked by Science. IN WERE MEN; FFECT OF Vv PARENT DISTANCE AND COURSE | | | NO. 4—THESE LETTERS AP- | PEAR TO BE CROOKE THE PICTURE ZONTAL POSITION, TOWARD YOU AND JUST BE- LOW THE LEVEL OF EYE AND YOU WILL SEE THAT THEY AR ALIGNMENT, TION IS ACCOMPLIS or thy tish Psyeho- ew in 1908, ‘The principles are illustrated in the other nirie cire th es, that is, | ation ofthe effect of “broken lines Vhis is due to the change of dire n of the broken lines. It should te assumed that each of the letters is a 4 black block, cut out as an Ly 1, iF] 1. ‘The white portion of the icttora} sents white paint, camouflaging a tly respectable member of the Uphabet, as a tibsy letter that bas celebrating the iteenth Amendment. By tan | ip chough away so that the eye can-| t the broken lines tt will be hot all the letter are in align. An experiment to show that things ire not necesserily w at they appear sto draw a picture of @ roud, Jered by a row of telephone poles, across the Draw two straight parallel lines to THOUGHT THEY TRICKED H THE WORLD READERS. York City.” The man with the oillcloth bag and the whiskers was born in Moscow. He's a Naw Yen ker too, $ The girl with the golden hair and the Frener matd is @ * famous movie act She is New York through and } through, alihough her birth certificate is filed in Wanke NOC, 1—THEORETICAL DIAGRAM SHOWING FORM OF TREAT- DESIGNED TO GIVE EFFECT OF GREATER DISTANCE BY SHORTENING AND LOWERING SHIPS, COURSE AT A TANGENT WITH HER TRUE ONE BY DIAGONALLING HER APPARENT HULL LINE. APPARENT LINES AND A ' thrilling concourse of the Grand Cer jtral the red-capped porter, seiming | Main st Jsworn by all his ancestors | sult was “direct from New Ye | could approximate a walk. Minnie re- NO. 3—THIS IS NOT A SERIES OF ECCENTRIC CIRCLES CAMOUFLAGED TO APPEAR ECCENTRIC BY CHECKERED BACKGROUND AND BROKEN LINES THAT FORM CIRCLES. YOUR RULER WILL PROVE HOW YOUR EYE !S DE- CEIVED, THIS PRINCIPLE IS EMBODIED IN CAMOUFLAGE OF PERFECT ON draw several short| pain | at regular distance | ent the telegraph pol | Now comes the pri | the log of we it off paint.’ cuartera to dance and sup. ‘They hull with paint { spent | Pear much lower in the water | road. | sentir representing tches of paint ate ted the attention of the he neglect of the real ship, disguised times light patches of nev of the log be|to t stand perpend made it appear that water or sky wag seen through the I le of the ship, | making it appear that there was more than one vessel. . it will not cross the mmander could sa awn |and that was by approaching close to camouflaged ship. ome of them * shown on this page, { unuat In No, 3 the diagram shows what|of t Mad & disconce ir proper] with certain va are perfect | ous color nd often dumped oy |the depth bom» trick the subma rine Within half a mile was wrenches ms opened and there t the puagling econd engine Famous Prophetess Predicted Wo ld War. the|New York kn cy was made early 1914, when she issued a warning that France would be embrot This was months before there < y that | was any sign of conflict Dumas was aroused to enthusiasm|an international reputation when she her career in Pari THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 19LY Who Are New Y orkers? Close-Ups of the Actors in the City’s Daily Drama |The People Who Make Up This Great City Are Drawn From All Quarters of the Globe—Yet, Once Here, They Fall Nafurally Into Well-Defined Groups and Resolve Them- selves Into Recognized Types It Is With Various of These Types That This Series Will Deal. NO, 1—THE OUTLANDERS. By Zoe Beckley Coppright, 1919, Pre Pubiwhing Nhe New York Berane Wort’ l Boston “is a state of mind,” then. New York {s the Grand Central Sta tion, The commu with the auto tire, the bundie of gerdew seed, the carpet sweeper and the box of eggs alway te Join Smith, New sha. I'm a New Yorker. You're one too, notwithstand- ing your membership in the Ohio ely, We're New Yorkers because we love New York. George han had rather be a lamp post on Broadway than- ete. et. The i Moscow gentleman could have pure air and a clean WE SREKCET cottage out in Watson's Crossroads, lowa. but he'd rather j Jive in two rooms on Eldridge Street. The golden girl could not breathe the air of Waukesha two hours without a cigarette to frame a soothing vision of New York within its sinoke-cloud We love our home towns. Ru when the youth wi $ the stand Giass paneln: MPTAbiAN eee of “Papers from Other Cities” say ation and everything, Of course Guess YOU Jo want Ka as}t City Wihmpp—he |e New York} “Oh. I know s © to 00 Evening Wolld for you we tickled Mine fact Anyhow. t's the way Minnie andja vou never gv anything It, As they crossed the| ¢ Ways more—ond more s € AUisfied this ‘Ted Grantby , murmured, “Home again ‘ tainly iss agreed the ‘s high~ And Minnie, w t home lepa but New York eeer nem), her smart hat, I with the chenille figure exactly at her mouth corner trae! She looked like|(™Odish New York women, Minnie Hapa rilages eeboegy eel €, all wore them). uldn't fool and gratitude store tr was true—it was a New Yorker! her for one. And you New York porters! romi a ady resolved to get a that before the day was No New Yerk woman was go- ‘ ahead of her! She gave alu nie he 1. Minnie thanked elher, and they parted, Minnie didn't want to seem ‘ing to way to the tax ly thin girl In a sa so tight at the ankles thal ir-inch hitch was the nearest Asiastic, She ad heard New York people werent borly or anything—it was part of the queer charm of New York— solved to “bunt” down to 117 and re-/%0"' S'° wasn't going vo herself duce her skirt to the breadth of a br ; jh eave Central Now trouser leg. If New York women were ' aatiig way she would] Well, Minnie did find an apartment in the same long, high, buff-colored lady lived, If New York [2OW Where the soc wear them would be thin ! w were thin s Ted had to rust id to rustle month for she had to subsist on a pickle a da. ie ; q " t up for the night the} {= out © salary It was They put up ne night At tL o9 much. But Pips newest hotel. Not that it was enormous rents 4 was part of than the next newest, but Minnie and Ted both had a feeling that th would be more New Yorkers there ‘They had read that New Yorkers wor shipped the “latest,” whether an apart ment or a slang phrase. New Yor had no room in their constricted livin w Yorke 1 took it well. He was for speed- ing up the adjustment from Cente ka to Riverside Drive, and the e quick ‘The sociable ‘ Spink—Bessie Spink, The Spinks began ivantbys over to their flat, and planning theatres and Little their evenings, the Grantbys had heard, in cabarets, grills and palm inviting | rooms of hotels. card parties and “evenings.” Next day Minnie began bunting) josie coink was friendlier than apartments, It was @ nerve-tearing |yiinnin over dreamed New Yorkers experience, Minnie didn't KNOW UP} oouig be, She introduced Minnie to town from downtown, or east 8id2 line woman ont cond floor, whose from west, She had been warned|nisnand was in the auto truck buele that venta Were “RON” ONL MNS. ana to the members ef har hed not realized what degrees of bWednesday Club, yorabara ot Der awfulness there were Lf engin eens bebe 1 Bhe stumbled into the rest room Of lwidow, are, Stannard, who had her @ huge department store to rest andlown car, ‘They all had good times to- t herself, cross off the twenty-|gether and we ‘ addresses had already |¥orKors who visited and arrange the 28th, 29, |cont eA goth and Bist in order of location.} py day wher Her feet hurt & she could have cried. Jand felt blue, sie She felt depressed and heartsick, |fided to Be Slniet lonely and confused @ real New Yorker aft A woman leaned toward her from |from Central Nebraska the next chair Well, I'm from Oak Run, Kansas, “Warm, isn't for th me of|myself, dea urned Mrs, Spink ear? So tiresome shopping “rm glad out! There t one from out of town, aren't you?” she Jof us that's been in New Y nger smiled sociably th nonths, We're lone ‘This was a dampener tha hboy in landers, We Oh, no, my husband and Ter ther fordeur tifoestusen ving in New York,” replied Minnie r full of polite fictic n eley My husband's business is he I've levery none of us jen hunting an apartment since |little eray ugé nye “And you're in,” finished the|chance to tell the truth! Keep woman, understandingly. ‘Pind any- [this b-blufft w k-killing me!" Minnie shook her head “put I've several more paces} An American Princess y gee’? she added, Her friendly inte ' AC HIGINE, the only Amert- neighbor craned to look at Minnie A can women to become ihe wife ‘ist | of « eign, Was born in Oh never find anything |New Orleans sixty-one years age to- n tha ghborhood," she proffered |duy, Her father, a Jewish banker of rd natured as it was, |New Orleans, who made a fortum 1} the superiority of |settied in Da afte ne Wrancoe shier, Allee, © Due de Riche- in a te e Minnle ige over her ow live Why don't nection, It's rea cest in Ub rench fame New York, The Heights are yo-ah a son and daughter, provincial, don't you think?" after wh fe The Duchess Minnie would have loved to ask |remaied 9 wilow pears before what “provincial” meant in regard to|she married | f f Monaco, “The Heights," but dd care tol wh p i ' Lady Mary show her provincialness. The young |Pouglas Hamiltor 4 annulied™® woman went on: by the ehure Alice Heine's second and wrote an account of the seance | predicted the death of King Humbert for a Paris publication, From that |of Italy, several months before that reprewent the road, A sho distance “ 8 ei AMES moment Mme, Thebes's success was| monarch was assuesinated, {apartmen: right overlooking the granied @ divorce “Why not look in my deighborhood. |matrimonial venture did not turn o@t We have @ perfectly WON-der-fullhappily and the Prince was later ae ear