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HERE is another class of heroes in
this war besides those in the actu
\ al fighting zone, of whom the pub
/ lie knows nothing unless an offi
cial announcement is made of the
execution of some man or woman
“convicted of espionage.” Thou
sands of men and women, on both
sides, are risking their lives every
hour, every nllnute of the day, in
the secret service. And they are
doing it for their country. There
is no reward for them in the
shape of decorations or public commendation.
Their stern duty is laid out before them. It, is
tor them to fulfill it. That is all. They can hope
for no reward except the satisfaction of doing
their duty. At the best they live through the
conflict. At the worst they are captured by the
enemy and meet an ignominious death.
It takes as much courage to perform a duty
like this as to lie in the trenches day after day
and participate in charges against the enemy
or defend the trench from the enemy’s assault
and to be at all times subject to a terrific artil
lery bombardment or the more dreaded assault
with asphyxiating gases.
The man who meets his death in the trenches
has at least the consolation of dying amid his
comrades and friends—of dying a glorious death.
But the spy has not this consolation. Every
•ecret-service agent feels that his death is cer
tain, and that when It comes it will not be a glo
rious one. For he will die alone, with none of
his friends about him. His people back home
■will not know his fate. He will die alone in a foreign
country, not as a hero, but as a spy.
And yet if the annals of the secret service bu
reaus of the various countries were made pub
lic, It would tell of wonderful deeds of daring,
of strength, fearlessness and of physical and men
tal heroism.
With the arrival of the first German subma
rines in Constantinople, after the inauguration of
the British Dardanelles campaign, there became
known a story of the heroism of one of these
secret-service agents. His name was not given,
and the exact locality where he performed his
final act of duty was not told, but an officer of
the German U boat related the story to a per
sonal friend.
We will call the secret-service agent Johann.
He was a youngster, hardly twenty years old,
and a university man, a student at Heidelberg.
He always had been weak and delicate, and at
the beginning of the war .he was not allowed to
go to the front. He belonged to a wealthy fam
ily, had traveled extensively through Europe, and
was an accomplished linguist. He made applica
tion to the secret-service bureau and his applica
tion was accepted.
He was sent to England. There he passed as an
American. He had an American passport and
was connected with the English branch of an
American concern., How did he do it?
Ttje history of the German secret-service will
never be written, and not more than a dozen
living persons will ever know its extraordinary
■cope. The passport proposition and the con
nection with the London branch of the Ameri
can concern were mere matters of detail with
which Johann had nothing to do. It was after
Im 1U established in London that his real work
But at any rate he had worked in the French
capital several months, still posing as an Ameri
can who knew but a few words of French, al
though he was thoroughly familiar with the
French language, when he was ordered to take
certain orders to a little French fishing village
and deliver them to the commander of a subma
rine boat which was due there about a certain
date on its way to the Dardanelles.
The submarine commander had orders to wait
off the coast for two nights for the messenger,
and if no sign came to proceed on his way to the
Dardanelles.
How the secret-service agent did it is not
known, but early one morning he was ‘found on
the beach tied to a deck chair, and apparently
half dead from exposure and exhaustion. Two
aged fisherman found him and carried him into a
hut.
When partially revived, he murmured a few
words in English and then in broken French,
from which his rescuers gathered that he had
been in some accident at sea. Also that he was
an American on his way from Naples to the
United States.
As stated, the village was Isolated. The near
est city was Marseilles, and it would take sev
eral days for news to travel between the two
points, especially In war time.
Johann remained in bed the greater part of the
day, tended by a fisherman and his aged wife.
Toward dusk he insisted on arising and walking
out on the edge of the cliff. He still appeared
partially stunned, but he explained in his broken
French that he though the fresh air would help
to clear his mind. e
“You are too weak to walk,” exclaimed the old
woman. “You must not exert yourself. Tomor
row, perhaps, yes, but not now.”
•And she gently took him by the arm to lead him
back to the cottage.
“Sacre bleu!" suddenly exclaimed her husband
and pointed out to sea.
A trail of sparks rose from the black surface
of the water, and, ascending high into the air,
burst into a white glare. Then darkness. More
cries and exclamations were heard, for other fish
ermen had seen the rocket. Then silence, while
everyone waited. In a few moments rose another
trail of Are, and a brilliant green rocket exploded
high in the air.
“Some of the boats of the fleet are nigh,” cried
a woman. “It is a part of the war. It has reached
us here.”
Hour after hour passed. The secret-service
agent lay, tense and rigid, with his ear to a
crack in the thin partition between his room and
that of his hosts. After a while he heard them
both snoring. Then very gently he rose, dressed
himself, and opened a door, which let him out
into the open at the rear of the house.
It was a rather dark night, but there were some
stars shining, and, after standing in the night a
few moments, his eyes became accustomed to
I
began. He spoke per
fect English, but he
used an American ac
cent and affected Amer
ican clothes and man
nerisms, for he knew
both well enough to af
fect either successfully.
V<7ORK that
f^n calls for
the finest sort of
heroism—how
one lad died^hr
German cause®
the gloom. Then he started toward the little har
bor at the foot of the cliffs.
Skirting about the fleet, he reached a small
skiff, with its oars in it, tied to a stake. Quickly
the lad untied the rope, and, shoving the boat
far out, sprang into it. He waited until the force
of the shove had spent itself, then, cautiously,
began rowing along the beach. He was not
strong, however, and it was an effort. But he
kept it up for a quarter of a mile. His eyes had
grown accustomed to the darkness by now, and
he narrowly watched the shore. At a certain
point he rowed inshore and pulled his boat after
him up on the sandy beach. Then he approached
the cliff, and after a search found what he was
looking for—a bundle containing a precious
rocket. Farther on, in a fissure of a rock, hidden
under a large stone, he found his packet of in
structions. He had left both bundles hidden there
early in the morning after he had been landed by
a fishing smack from Spain.
He planted the rocket in the sand and touched
it off. Instantly there was a flash of fire and a
trail of sparks as the rocket soared upward and
burst into a white light.
Johann, with his precious packet in the bosom
of his shirt, sprang into the boat just as an an
swering signal, a white rocket, soared upwards
from the surface of the water, nearly a half mile
away.
The tide had gone out and was almost on the
turn, but there was a heavy swell and it was hard
work rowing. But scarcely had the lad gotten
a hundred yards from the shore when there was
a flash of light from the cliffs near the village.
It crept out over the water and close to the
shore, sweeping and reaching out over the ex
panse of sea. Far out it caught a narrow black
hull and held it a moment. Then it swept closer
to shore and in a few moments was focused on
the tiny boat beating its way out to sea. Shots
were fired from the shore, but the lad, in the midst
of the glare, bent far over his oars, straining
every effort of his feeble body to fulfill his
task.
Somewhere, farther along the coast, the signals
of the early evening had been observed, and a
coast patrol had been sent to investigate.
From the top of the cliff came the sputter of
a machine gun, and off to one side the lad, row
ing desperately, saw the bullets drop.
The submarine was coming closer inshore and,
turning his head, he saw several men with rifles
on the tiny deck of the monster. From the cliffs
there was another sputter and suddenly a sharp
pain struck him in the right breast and he felt
the hot flow of blood. But it appeared to give
him more strength, and with apparently no ef
fort he drove his boat through the water. There
were answering shots from the submarine. They
were firing at the searchlight on the cliff and at
the spurts of flame. .
But the darWß|^^ot on the front of the lad's
shirt was growf^^BHbr. And there were holes
in the bottom o^B^ooat, through^ which the wa
ter was spurting in thin jets. Another bullet
struck him in the right arm. He gasped, then con
tinued his rowing.
A hail from behind him and lie suddenly stopped
rowing. He had reached the submarine. A rope
was thrown to him and the skiff pulled up close to
the undersea craft. Kindly hands helped him
aboard while the machine gun continued its sput
tering and a hail of bullets struck the water near
by. The whole thing had scarcely taken five min
utes.
The agent was quickly taken below and he
handed his packet to the commander.
The boat was slowly submerged and disappeared
beneath the dark waters,
"My work is done,” gasped the lad, trying to
choke back the blood that welled up from his
lungs.
"We did not dare rise to the surface until the
next night,” continued the officer, in relating the
story. "And then we buried him in the sea, where
thousands of other heroes have found their rest
ing place in the last few month*.”
.GEORGIA.
GEORGIA TROOPS
READY FOR MEXICO
Ninety Per Cent Os The Georgia National
Guard Volunteer For Service
If Needed
OFFICERS MAKE REPORTS
J
General Nash Sends Out Inquiries^ln
Regard To Enlistment In
Event Os Call
Atlanta —
At least 90 per cent of the Georgia
Nation’al Guard will volunteer for act
ive service in event of a call being
made. This percentage is based upon
information received by the adjutant
general. It does not include a num
ber of militiamen whose acceptance
would work a hardship upon their
families.
The information received was in re
sponse to inquiries sent out by Gen
eral Nash. Commanding officers of
each company in the state militia were
requested to ascertain the number of
physically fit men willing to volunteer
in case of need.
The requests were answered in a
manner highly gratifying to the adju
tant general.
At Washington, D. C., Senator
Sherman (Rep.) has introduced a res
olution in congress to authorize and
direct the president at once to call
for 50,000 volunteer for service in
Mexico.
The resolution provides that prefer
ence be given to members of the or
ganized militia, that the volunteers be
held in service until peace and sound
government have been established in
Mexico, and that their operations be
limited within the territorial limits of
Mexico as an auxiliary to the forces
of General Carranza.
County School Officials To Meet
The executive committee of the
County School Officials' Asosciation
of Georgia met in the offices of the
state department of education and fix
ed May 3, 4 and 5, as the date for
the annual meeting of the association,
which will be held in Douglas.
The program for the meeting will
be arranged and announced soon.
Among those attending the commit
tee meeting were E. W. Sammons of
Gray, M., W. Harrell „of Eastman, C.
E. Cox of Jasper, T. J. Cleveland of
Elberton, J. W. McFarland of Carnes
ville, M. L. Duggan, rural school su
perintendent for the states State
School Superintendent M. L. Brit
tain, ahd R. E. Carroll of Decatur,
Ga., superintendent of the DeKalb
county schools, who is not a mem
ber of the committee.
Atlanta Station Now Ranks Fifth
In points of enlistments in the Unit
ed States navy, Atlanta stands fifth
in the list of all the recruiting sta
tions in the country.
A source of considerable pride to
Atlantans is the fact, according to
navy department reports, that this sta
tion ranks among the first in the land
in point of percentage of acceptances
of applicants for enlistment in the
navy, attesting the high standard of
Georgia’s young men both mentally
and physically. For instance, out of a
body of 71 applicants at Atlanta, 15
successfully passed the naval require
ments and were accepted—approxi
mately 22 per cent; while, out of 140
applicants in the New York recruiting
office, only 17 —about 11 per cent —
were accepted.
Inneses Coming Soon
Victor E. Innes and his wife, want
ed in Atlanta to answer to an indict
ment charging larceny after trust, will
abandon their fight against extradi
tion to Georgia, according to an an
nouncement made by counsel for the
couple. It was stated that they would
be ready to return to Georgia for
trial soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Innes are charged in
the indictment_returned in Atlanta
with having misappropriated about
$12,000 said to have' been given them
for investment by Mrs. Eloise Nelms
Dennis of Atlanta,' and were arrested
here on that ^charge after theif ac
quittal, about avyear ago, on a charge
of murder in coimj^iwyivith the dis
appearance of Mr^.Dennis and her
sister, Miss Beatrice Nelms.
Aid For 801 l Weevil Fight
The federal government has., prom
ised aid to Georgia in exteritiination
of the boll weevil. An agreement was
reached between State Entomologist
E. Lee Worsham and the United
States bureau of plant industry and
the United States bureau of entomol-'
ogy, by which the two federal de
partments will co-operate with the
state department both on the boll
weevil and citrus canker.
Mr. Worsham states that an emerg
ency appropriation of $300,000 has
been made by the national govern
ment to be used in fighting the citrus
canker in the Southern states.
Over 29,000 Auto Tags Issued
Applications for 1916 automobile
tags are still being received by Secre
tary of State Philip Cook at the rate
of about 100 per day. This was ex
plained by Mr. Cook, who said many
auto owners whose cars had been put
up for the winter were getting them
out with the spring weather.
To date aprpoximately 29,700 li
cense tags have been Issued out of
an estimated total of 35,000 for the
| entire state.
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Govern<U Ap; ion Tour
To Be M 5 * ' j* rosd
r Atlanta —
Governor Harris received a letter
from C. Murphey Candler, chairman
of the lease commission of the West
ern and Atlantic railroad, announcing
a tentative program for the meeting
on April 4-7 of the commission.
! ■ The tentative program, which is
(subject to the approval of the commis
sion, after it meets on April 4, is as
follows:
April 4 —Meet in Atlanta.
April s—lnspects—lnspect Atlanta terminals.
April 6 —lnspection tour by*commis
sioners of road to Chattanooga,. Tenn.,
and
April 7 —lnspection of Chattanooga
terminals.
Governor Harris approves of the in
spection tour to be made by the com
mission, thinking it best that the mem
bers acquire personal information as
to the properties of the state’s road
which they are to make disposition of
when the present lease of the road to
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
ends i^the year 1919.
J^attle Valves Shown
Demonstrating the possibilities of
the cattle business in Georgia, and of
Atlanta’s becoming the great live stock
market of the south, two deals in cat
tle on the hoof were negotiated by lo
cal buyers recently, in which more
than fifty-e’^Mkhousand pounds oL.
live beef e'g^H^^^ands, netting the
growers i JHHB^^A4,SOO. It. is not
the large
head
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ET War Zone
the
brook for the Euro-
pean A^u^BßmStjy 10th
in the ArM^^^^Babulance Service.
Mr. SeabrootW^^Praveled extensive
ly in France a:^Knroughout the war
zone as corres indent for a number
of American newspapers. He expects
to be gone for several months. He will
retain his interest in the Lewis-Sea
brook company, and the business will
be conducted during his absence by
Fred Lewis, the senior partner. Mr.
Seabrook is known to practically ev
ery newspaper man in Georgia and his
experience in the war zone will be
followed with unusual interest.
Prepare To Care For Dope Addicts
Officials of the state board of
health are preparing to take care of
the drug addicts who will be turned
adrift by the city on April 1.
The board will handle these cases
through institutions in each congres
sional district of the state. There will
be about fifteen institutions, outside
of Atlanta, which will be called on to
make provision for the drug users.
Some of the cities, having hospitals
which will treat dope patients, and
w’hich will be asked to do their part
in the work are the following: Sa
vannah, two; Thomasville, Waycross,
Clifton, Columbus, Rome, Douglas,
Augusta, Plains, Franklin Springs and
Cordele.
Federal Experts Make Survey
Floyd county is now being surveyed.,
by a score of federal health experts
under the leadership of Surgeon Wil
liam H. Slaughter, United States pub
lic health service. The survey is- of a
general health and sanitary nature for
the improvement df health conditions
and elimination of disease. The state
board of health has mailed out several
thousand circular letters to citizens
of Floyd county asking them to co
operate in the survey, as Floyd coun
ty is one of but a few counties
-throughout the United States to have/
this survey made by the federal gov£
ernment.
Larger Fund Needed By
The welfare committee, assiafe
the task of providing for the
less and needy families of Au^B
caused by the devastating fire, islß
a signed statement to the effect tH
526 homes were destroyed by 9
fire. I ft/
In the statement the committ^B
says that at first it was believed tiu=B
$50,000 would be sufficient to care f<jH
the homeless, but after a thorough
vestigation a much larger sum will beS
needed.
It is estimated that between 3,000 J
and 3,500 individuals^r^aow being
cared for by relatjjßßßkfriends.
Prisoner Has Some^^BErt
Governor Harris has r£B^d a let
[ ter from a prisoner irJWie of the
county prisons of the staW^asking his ’
assistance in getting out. The pris
i oner declares that his telease is rec
. ommended by “eighty-five good citi
zens of this county who are in jail"
with him.
Community School Proves Success
, “The Glynn county community
school is a plan which I hoped to see
adopted in other sections of the
' state,” said M. L. Brittain, state
■ school superintendent, who has been
■ attending the annual meeting of the
Southeastern Sanitary association.
“Glynn county has proven that the
1 plan of centralizing the county schools
is not only feasible, but an absolute
- success, and I hope other Georgia
i counties will realize the great benefits
s derived from such a school and follow
the example.
