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The Letters of Eve

... should have had to write to The Times to say how aw'fly annoying it was that people would say he'd been shot as a spy. 'Spose the rumour arose 'cos so little's been seen of him lately, though his sisters. Princess Pless and the Duchess of Westminster- ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2307 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WHEEL AND THE WING: CANADA'S NEW OIL-FIELD: HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES: AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT; An Important ..

... FIELD HOW TO ARRANGE TYRES AN UNRECORDED SPY HUNT. An Important Discovery. Very welcome from every point of view is the news that an immense oil-field has been dis covered in Northern Alberta, Canada. Rumours, it is true, have been flying about for some ...

Published: Wednesday 10 February 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1059 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... to the infinite pain of his family bandied from mouth to mouth as reincarnated in the shape of a German spy and a commander of Zeppelins. ()ne rumour went so far as to state with magnificent unreason and great particularity that he was actually in charge ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1588 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO

... and Walery and Topical. Lieutenant-Colonel George Cornwallis-West has publicly denied the persistent rumours that he has been 4 shot in England as a spy.' He has commanded since September one of the battalions of the Royal Naval Division which fought at ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 575 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS: Spies

... The Fear. gut then everybody was spy-wraught in those days. There is nothing which makes people so afraid as the rumour that they have a spy in their midst. There is always some thing sinister, almost uncanny, about a spy. We imagine him a silent, furtive ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2476 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS

... f CROWNS CORONETS COURTIERS |Q THE greatly exaggerated report that Colonel George Corn wallis-West had been shot as a spy began with the milder but still utterly ridiculous story that he had been confined in the Tower. At any rate, he was there in good ...

Published: Wednesday 20 January 1915
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1092 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

BYSTANDER WAR COMMENTS: The Dangers of Advertisement

... hardly follow Mr. Maxse in styling their amiable 1 inventor the crazy count. The German Spy And take another thing that was widely advertised before the war, the German spy system. Has it really been a success True, it was admirably organised, as is everything ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1915
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2257 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bee in the Bonnet: AN AUTO-CAUSERIE

... restful for an invalid's nerves absolute quiet, the doctors said. Co the ever-faith ful automobile had to be requisi tioned to spy out the land of Sussex-by- the-Sea, and I had no cause to com plain of lack of comfort in a 16-22 Napier landaulette with an ...

Published: Wednesday 24 March 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1285 | Page: 32 | Tags: Photographs 

With SILENT FRIENDS: A Sea Story

... Prussia, the Krupp family, Herr Dernburg and, of course, the Kaiser. Her own personal adventures include the offer to become a spy, an improper proposal from a lieutenant, and one serious indiscretion when she wrote to the British Ambassador in Berlin telling ...

Published: Wednesday 27 January 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2297 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

The Letters of Eve

... rsnnr 1 work in the Dardanelles, I believe, and depressed everyone so dreadfully that we all began to take seriously all the rumours and to wonder how on earth: it was ever going to get paid that two millions a day this awful old war's soon going to cost ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1915
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2699 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs