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The Bystander in Paris: PERSONALLY CONDUCTED

... out who he was. There was a vague suggestion that he was a Spaniard, and opinions were evenly divided as to whether he was a spy or a detective. He didn't take any notes, so he wasn't a French journalist, or a Russian journalist, or a Dutch journalist, ...

Published: Wednesday 31 May 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1088 | Page: 16 | Tags: Illustrations 

WITH SILENT FRIENDS

... without a blush. Zeppelins. We believed the newspapers in those days, and the official news was swallowed as gospel truth. Spy-hunting was a great game. When a Zeppelin came over and killed a black bird, we saw in it the failure of all German aircraft ...

Published: Wednesday 05 April 1916
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2443 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

A Tune

... Probably not. Hostile aircraft was rare here, and the same could be said of spies. The towns near the line were hot-beds of spying, but this quiet rural district, curiously unworried by war, seemed free from the pest. Then the thoughts of our very fed-up ...

Published: Wednesday 26 April 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2273 | Page: 30 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Bystander in Paris: AT THE SIGN OF THE RED DONKEY

... help it, and people collect on the kerb and suggest that if you have money to throw away on cabs you must be a badly disguised spy in the pay of the Boche, and the lady who sells artichokes nods her head to the lady who sells periwinkles, and remarks, Is ...

Published: Wednesday 14 June 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1196 | Page: 19 | Tags: Illustrations 

FRONGSY-ONGLY AS SHE IS SPOKE

... Daylight Saving Bill But this may be exaggeration. (However, not for publication.) IV Now I must stop I only hope No beastly spy will bag this letter. (Please send me out twelve cakes of soap.) This filthy weather's getting wetter I've rheumatism in all ...

Published: Wednesday 12 July 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1430 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

RENTED ESCORTS FOR LONELY LADIES

... gone down all right with Adam but I ain't so green, see Apples indeed, and how many men exactly,' eh You are a blooming German spy, that 's what you are 1 Went on the 24th to a concert in aid of the Russian Red Cross, at 50, Leinster Gardens chez Mme. Maria ...

Published: Wednesday 06 December 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1756 | Page: 5 | Tags: Illustrations 

WiTH SiLENT FRiENDS: On Being by Yourself

... driven to drill are dis tinctly heard outside the barracks Schmidt A clever drawing by Alfred Leete from his book, Schmidt, the Spy, and his Messages to Berlin, published by Duckworth and Co. ...

Published: Wednesday 19 July 1916
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2519 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations