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SPYING in BELGIUM as a FINE ART:

... SPYING in BELGIUM as a FINE ART By E. van Isacker. The Germans have brought spying to a fine art. The word spying is an ugly one. I notice that the Germans usually designate these men and women as agents or observers. In no country have their activities ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1559 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Bystander in Copenhagen: Panic-Stricken Calm

... gentleman. He is 's cleverest spy. Everyone knows it. Why does he let people know it asked the Bystander, if he's so clever For three days the Bystander was followed by two perhaps more-- ill-dressed persons who thought he was a spy. They followed him to the ...

Published: Wednesday 30 August 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 973 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

BELLICOSITIES

... the German Emperor wot's to blame. It's this 'ere bloomin' Kaiser. °W t'len' w^at are you doing here at this time of night Spying, I expect. No. I'm only burglin' I beg your pardon. Sorry I troubled you. Good night. PEACE TWADDLE Evening News poster ...

Published: Wednesday 23 September 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 566 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

BELLICOSITIES

... the amateur photographer. Wherever he turns up with his bag of tricks in a public place he is liable to be challenged as a spy. It is^ true that, when asked if he has snapped anything of a compromising nature, he can always reply, in Parliamentary form ...

Published: Wednesday 17 May 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 652 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

IN ENGLAND-NOW!

... secrecy and muzzling and mystifying has, of course, the usual effect. London simply seethes with rumours, crop after crop of them, rumours big and small, rumours absurd and otherwise, but none too big or too small or too absurd to be bandied from mouth to ...

Published: Wednesday 24 February 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1565 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

MOTLEY NOTES: New Light on an Old Tale

... Sunshine League for the benefit of the aged poor. The Spy Another point upon which the public the Mystery whole public in this case might well receive some definite official information is the spy trouble. There may be excellent reason why thousands of ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1332 | Page: 4 | Tags: Illustrations 

BELLICOSITIES

... BELLICOSITIES BY JINGO IN England Germans are being naturalised: in Belgium unnaturalied. There are persistent rumours that a nation called Austria is taking some part in the present war, supposedly upon the side of Germany. TV/I arine Light Infantry ...

Published: Wednesday 09 September 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 789 | Page: 15 | Tags: Illustrations 

Telling the Tale

... I Telling the Tale Ij BY ARNOLD GOLSWORTHY OF all the strange rumours which reach Mr. Thomas Atkins at the front perhaps one of the strangest is that there is a food shortage in Blighty. The German Wireless, having had of late a scarcity of the usual ...

Published: Wednesday 13 March 1918
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 834 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Bystander in Copenhagen: LITTLE GERMANY

... ditties, bathe in the lake and tramp chanting back. Last week two were expelled and rumour says their offence was mingling with melody and bathing the gentle function of spy. Perhaps they dived into Lyngby Lake in search of British submarines. 44. Apart from ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 847 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE MAILED FIST

... hair was the best part of her because she wore a wig; but then it was such a beautiful wig that you really did not notice it. Rumour had it that the lady had received offers of marriage from no fewer than three monarchs that evening, and had refused them ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1112 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Tune

... Probably not. Hostile aircraft was rare here, and the same could be said of spies. The towns near the line were hot-beds of spying, but this quiet rural district, curiously unworried by war, seemed free from the pest. Then the thoughts of our very fed-up ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2273 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

The SCAREMONGER: A TALE OF THE WAR TIMES

... three revolvers which is as much as to say that my sentinels go to sleep. But I tell you. General, I have actually traced the rumour about the sinking of three battleships off Chatham to this ridiculous. Well, we won't hang him this afternoon, the Inspecting ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2905 | Page: 38 | Tags: Illustrations