GERMAN DOCTORS AS SPIES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12541, 12 May 1915, Page 7

GERMAN DOCTORS AS SPIES.

In spite ol' elaborate precaution.; thcro still seems to bo a ■deal of soviug in Flanders. Even as far back as Calais a naturalised German was arreted, being caught red-handed .signalling U> a German submarine which was lying a I'eiv mill'." off the slure. In corisequeiicc a g,-'i!cral roiinoiiig-up of spies in Fhiiiibrs has taken place and a goo<l many have already boon arrested. Two German ullicors. di-.guised in the uniforms of English dolors, were caught. They Had- been a hi-..' to ciivulnle with freedom night and day. and oveiybodv was praising- them fui their /cal m attending the wounded.. Two" hawkers round -hiding .-in' ;orae bushes have also Ucen arrested. Also, anoi'dii'.'j; to the "Nord Maritime." two "Belgian" gendarmes were arrested while making their round-; near DaiusrappeHe. It appears that these two had beggi-.l their oiticers to allow them to make a' 'tour of inspection along the lines in the hope of apprehending any suspicious individuals. Eventually the gendarmes proved to be Germans who at the outbreak of war had succeeded in enlist: imi by some means or other in the Bel-

gian gendarmerie. 'Their desire to make h tour of the front wars only for. the purpose of making .signals to the enemy.