... SPY SCARES. MOTOR CYCLIST'S MAD RIDE. SUSPECTED POISONED CIGARETTES. WELL-KNOWN LUTONIAN'S UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. During the past week Luton people have been i almost bewildered hv rumour upon rumour of spies, outrages, and so forth, but Dame Rumour's ...

... THE SPY SCARE. The spy scare is responsible for some strange incidents and rumours. Two Bedford tradesmen were holiday at Whitley Bay a few days ago, and paid a visit to Holy Island. One them had a camera, and it seems that the other somewhat an* awered ...

... WILD RUMOURS IN BEDFORD, Many wild rumours of dastardly outrages perpetrated or attempted by alleged enemies in Bedford have been scattered broadcast in the town during the past few days, and all them, upon investigation, have proved to be groundless ...

... LOCAL CHAT It would be valuable indeed if some of the | alarmist rumours, such as the one which waa' so widely circulated on Saturday, could be traced to their source. We were told—and the statement was disseminated with the celerity with which bad news ...

... a time of nervou=ress, in which every reverse was magnified, the policy of our naval authorities was criticised, and the ** spy mania ”’ led to every hamlet sedulously guarding its waterworks. That period is now over, and the nation has stiffened its back ...

... for a war with Turkey ‘with three Great Powers on the Greek side. ~ Locally there is less of that feverish absorp‘tion of rumours which marked the early ‘stuges of the war. A well-founded scepticism prevails, and stories of disasters to British arms (by ...

... considered to a Government spy. and then thought to a robber of black men's treasures. Rumours circulated that was •mong the people to steal their sons, their wives, their food, their land; but in time they found these rumours baseless and rejected them ...

... showed how completely they have failed to imbibe the traditions of naval service. One point worth noting is that the enemy’s spy service, though slow, is still fairly efficient. Our Admiralty kept the affair secret—for obvious reasons. The Germans seem ...

... evening was made the victim of a * German spy '’ scare, and was obliged to seek the protection of the police. The man was respectably dressed, and was first noticed resting under a tree in High Street South. A rumour was circulated that he was a German, and ...

... 6. 1914 **********************t********************** * GEORGE’S PALACE, : Some alarm has been caused and many unfounded rumours have been current the town in consequence an occurrence outside Ivcl Bury last night, when the sentry duty stopped motor lorry ...

... work.'' \ . STOPSLEY SPY SCARE. What appears to have been a mischievous prank : on the part of sonx? person or persons infected 1 with the high spirits of youth seems to have caused ' a mild sort of scare around Stopsley. Rumour ' first had it that a ...

... feeling which has been aroused all over the country by the events of the past fortnight wit., prodwtive of another crop of spy rumours in Luton, and the most amusing of these wadi amocitted with the v:sit of inspection paid by local electricity conaufmtra ...