A Catholic French Priest - in role
of teacher
At Walmer - informs his family at
Chambery,
Of his encounter with a German spy –
At Deal, Naval Hospital, Kent, the
priest
Made a visit, to wounded Belgian
soldiers.
Among these men he met a sergeant -
An intelligent and expert draughtsman -
On leaving the Hospital as a
convalescent
The sergeant took a transfer to Folkestone,
Where he met the priest once again.
The sergeant lay under cloud of
depression,
Telling how his children Wife and
Father
Had been shot by Germans - the
tragedy,
This, he stated, came from a friend
at Liege –
The man, being in an agitated state,
vowed
He would kill any German he
encountered.
A week later, again at the Naval
Hospital,
The priest spoke to a nurse who
asked
If he recalled how he had taken an
interest
In the wounded Belgian man - whose
Profession had been a draughtsman.
The nurse informed him how the man had
Been taken to Calais, three days
previously.
At the port the Sergeant was then
proved
To be a fraud, when he faced the
actual
Belgium soldier - whose true identity,
History, papers and name, he had
taken.
Being proved a spy he was promptly
shot.
Another spy tale came from Bordeaux
-
Willy Sattler was German but
spoke good
Fluent French – in Paris he
frequented
The war office and when the
government
Moved to Bordeaux, he followed.
While precautions had been made to curb
Any possible deeds of spies - Willy
Slater
Gained entry into where Ministry of
War -
Then based in Faculty Of Letters - caught,
It turned out that Willy Sattler was
in fact
A NCO in 79th
German Infantry Regiment.
Court-martialled, he was sentenced to
death.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Enterprising Spies – Caught
and Shot. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 9 Jan. P.10. Col 7. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11331132/Daily-Telegraph-January-9-1915.html
[Accessed: 9 January 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 9 January 2015).
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