... MYSTERIOUS RUMOURS Still another curious fact or rumour concerning the mysterious Madame X. At the beginning of the war she organised an ambulance to which two army surgeons were attached. Soon after entering on service the medical officers, observing ...

... Negonbo in a hired car. He refused to pay the bill and assaulted an officer. The rumour was spread, says the Times of Ceylon, that he was a German spy, and his arrest produced some sensation. It was soon discovered that his mind had become unbalanced. ...

... newspaper. I sin not clear which country I was spying for, but at the moment I am fairly busy on work for Great Britain. It will be remembered that early in the war Grahame White wa9 the subject of an identi• cal rumour. ...

... lain off to try and spy out the land of the Philistines, and will be away a week or so. With luck, I hope to return laden with—not grapes—but bananas! A food convoy has just come in, and from the fellow in charge we learn that the rumour as regards an engagement ...

... in a quiet way. People often wondered why he had settled in so excluded a neighbourhood and laughingly called him a German spy. but hardly one regarded such talk as serious. 1,..t week, shortly after war was declined with Germany, he suddenly and hastily ...

... of being a German spy. It was said that thedoetorsin thehospital to which he had b3en tsken dec:ded that he was sh unmi n 4 injury an 1 that ILI was arrested while trying to leave hospital. Apparently this was only one of the many spy cqn.tr,lB which always ...

... by so doing saved the German armies from what seemed like inevitable disaster. A DUZL. Some years ago rumours began to circulate about this arch-spy; and the Novoe Vremya openly accused him of betraying the country and selling secret documents to a foreign ...

... military forces of the Crown, or,' perhaps, a civilian arrested as a spy. But the courts were entitled to take notice of notorious facts regarding this war: for instance, the part played by rumour, reports, and intrigues; the use of wireless telegraphy,signalling ...

... shot. So far as one can understand the matter rough ly, his own people would have shot him if he had not undertaken to be a spy, and thus he was rather on the horns of a dilemma. There are some six thousand naturalized Germans in this country and they ...

... disaffection in the regiment, due to preaching by KomagataMaru men in the villages, to letters received from America, and to wild rumours about Germany. On the night of 27th November witness saw a body of 20 to 25 men of the cavalry, and learned that a large quantity ...

... make very good use of what we have got.' Other notable visitors were S.:einbauer, the renowned chief spy, and the bugbear of many sensational rumours; Herr Dernberg, ete ex- Cabinet Minister, represented as a swarthy oompound of H threw and Slav an 1 ...

... European lady who had married a Titian some years ago but had separattit from him. This caused local excite- Lent and a rumour that a German spy }ad been discovered. Enquiries by the Empire show that a German was living in the house, but with the knowledge of ...