... some who have been pointed by rumour as coming under the ban foreigners, supposed to have designs upon th© community at this time. Our well-known townsman, Mr. F. Gilt-row, of 159, Highstreet, is one of the victims of the spy scare, and the statements concerning ...

... A Spy in Soho. / thonglit I bad got bold of a really War was ringing in the air; the newabsys west howling down the streets sheeting tho dreadful word, the bills of Nom In black sad yullow and red proclaitsed it; all London was fell of the wise and rumour ...

... UNFOUNDED SPY SCARES. Lord Charles Beresford mentioned the danger of spies. He said there was great iiuxiety in certain districts, and that vigilance committees might be formed. Mr. McKenna deprecated this alarm. All rumours of destructive action by spies ...

... TEE SPY SCARE. Perhaps the most discreditable pbenoinecon produced by the war is the campaign conducted by certain newspapers, with a peculiar talent for cultivating and exploitiug the meanest instincts, against the unhappy Germans and Austrians here ...

... GERMAN SPY METHODS. Private Haynes, one of the Royal Marines, who took part in the defence of. Antwerp, relates that during the retreat they had soine experience of (ter nan spy methods. At one place ivhere they halted there was a beautiful house which ...

... MORE SPY MYTHS. Alore incidents are to hand of the hardship and annoyance to which various persons have been subjected through the unthinking and over-zealous action of persons who have become infected with what mav W “■n.e spy fever.” No is highly desirable ...

... HOW RUMOURS GROW. After publishing last week a bat of many of the rumours we bad scotched in the district, we received the following short eone tribution from one of our readers, who attempts to give an explanation of a very cruel rumour that was circulated ...

... PORTSMOUTH SPY CASE. Charges under the Official Secrets Act against Sami. Maddiok, electrical fitter employed in Portsmouth Dockyard, have resulted in the discovery that accused is insane. He was formally discharged the Porlsnouth magistrates, and at ...

... Quietness and Confidence. THE SPY SCA'RE. A man who 'talks fear' is a disease in any conunsolty, said the Rev. F. G. French in With Forest Hill and Sycknham as the premising at Lee Chapel on Sunday. He headquarters of a large and influential German ...

... LORD OLAUD HAMILTON AND A RUMOUR. Speaking at a recruiting meeting at Romforel ('urn Exchange on Monday night, Lord Claud Hamilton. ALP., said, corning down in the train be had been informed that the Greet 'Astern Railway had imued a notice to its employees ...

... [SePtember THE SPY PERIL. ' HE spy peril is greater than most people to the Press, under signatures and addresses a W g o l , l ' f seem to think, and our Special Service on inquiry proved to be non-existent. Police are having the busiest time of their ...

... RUMOURS AND FACTS Concerning Peop!e and Things. Colonel Leslie Powell, V.D , the retired commanding officer of the Gth Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment, has offered for acting sarvice in any capacity, and says he will be very much disappointed if ...