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THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE

... further evidence of the callousness that prevails in the British Navy. The armed stowaway on the Matoppo, a self-confessed spy an applicant before a Military i Tribunal recently said that he could not enlist as his nerve would not allow him to fight. ...

Published: Wednesday 12 April 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 571 | Page: 26 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Lively Revue and a Play with a Purpose: BUSINESS AS USUAL AT THE HIPPODROME AND A DAUGHTER OF ENGLAND AT THE ..

... up dummy guns in the garden to frighten away hostile aircraft, while his efforts to capture the pigeons released by a German spy are a triumph of genial fooling. 'T'he tableau illustrating a cavalry charge is a most stirring affair, the effect being produced ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1332 | Page: 25 | 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 

Regimental Fables: No. XI.--OUTPOSTS

... command me to yield up my rifle And the Colonel answered him, and said How do you know I might be a Hun, a disguised Hun, a spy. 1 cannot understand et seq. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 July 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 577 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

How to be Witty though Wounded

... platoon and squadrons, and enfilading) its manners and customs, these are all his to his finger tips. Never was such a one for a spy, he scents them in harmless domestics, in street urchins, in any who wear spectacles and moustaches, he will spring questions ...

Published: Wednesday 25 November 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2049 | Page: 18 | 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 

Denmark's Uncrowned King

... any German as dangerous to Denmark's safety, the uncrowned king insists that in the in terests of true neutrality an Entente spy must also be expelled. From the German stand point Brock is a good diplomat. From the moral, sentimental, or Olympianly impartial ...

Published: Wednesday 17 January 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 749 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

BELLICOSITIES

... High Sea Fleet. /Cyclists are being much employed on the coast for observation purposes. Lighting-up time is when you meet a spy. :j: :jc rpalking of spies but everyone seems to be doing it, so we won't. /ine of the histories of the war advertises that ...

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

Keep Your Hair On!

... them out and for nearly two hours it took the Bystander for a German merely on the strength of his hair. 'phis is no thrilling spy tale. The Bystander-at-the-Back never for a moment feared for his life, but only for his dinner. At two on last Thursday he ...

Published: Wednesday 14 October 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 765 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations 

Telling the Tale

... store. As it happens, this story is quite true. There was a white sale on at the establishment in question, and what the German spy took for a food riot was nothing more than the usual feminine scramble for the best bargain in er let it go at that. For many ...

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

Somewhere in Flanders: THE ADVENTURES OF A STAMMERER

... that it was a hopeless proposition from the start. Comments were distinctly unfavourable. Well I'm Strafe me if he ain't a spy as well Officer's uniform an' all 'F,'s got some bloomin' neck an' no mistake They took his silence for guilt, not to say sulkiness ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 741 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Better 'Ole

... subject of blowing- up bridges.) On his return to the trench he is found with German papers on him, and is about to be shot as a spy when extenuating circumstances are discovered, and he is decorated with crosses and medals instead. &e, The plot, however, ...

Published: Wednesday 15 August 1917
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 852 | Page: 25 | Tags: Illustrations