HST 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pillow Talk, Okhrana
21 Mar 2016
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The watch for trains that are delayed and determine if their economies may not be strong. If they see a lot of people come out, ammunition on a train, enemy may attack. If food cab is empty, enemy may be struggling. Or if they see old or very young people, enemy is struggling. Northern france and belgium is where battles occur, so french can effectively use trainwatchers are mainly woman, children and elders as they don"t stand out and are people who have reason to be at station. Woman"s typically their at stations as they are seeking husbands. 1 and 2000 trainwatchers were run by woman, the white lady is the most well known. This group exists before ww1, however it is very shady on when it started as it goes bake in time as secret police of czars (tsars) In 1913 it becomes a central agency to russia but still controlled by czars.
