... honour of an Association of thieves belonging to four or five populous towns, who resented as a gross insult and outrage the rumour spread abroad that these massacres had been perpetrated at the instigation of the police by thieves and rifi-rafi of such ...

... SMASH COBDENISM. (With acknowledgments to Mr. Geo. R. Sims, in The Referee.) There is absolutely no truth in the rumour that some members of the Cabinet are not yet aware that we are at War with Germany. They all know it now, and some of them are beginning ...

... solicitude Sir John Simon has always shown for the From whence originate all the lying 'rumours that circulate •mi pars currency? There has been quite • crop of spy reports of the most fantastical sort since the last Zeppelin raid. They don't hatch ...

... be one of astonishing brilliancy. The tension between the Roumanians and the Bulgars is incre asing, 4 and there are even rumours of fighting on the Danube. In consequence of the shortage of flour in Ger- many, a military order has been issued forbidding ...

... lines drawn north, south, east, and west. Each section was sub-divided into ten parts, and in each of those parts there lived spy under some guise or other. He was cither notel manager, clock maker, waiter, hairdresser or something of tho kind. In each district ...

... the district is that the passenger was a spy taken on boned the airship to point out where the crew should drop their bombs. Unfortunately all other indications are lacking as to the identity of the wotran spy. —Exchange. THE WESTMINSTER , GAZETTE. CON ...

... spread further and further, and came to the eager ear* of the Germans, with the result that the Aeltrr innkeeper was creased of spying, found guilty :and shot. And I know the simple man hardly knew the meaning of the word name. The Grand Hotel at Zeebrugge ...

... for an advance of £40. The British agent's trap, so the story goes, was discovered, and the agent in question was denounced spy, arrested by the Greek authorities, and imprisoned. Yesterday afternoon five Allied warships arrived off Candia, and their commander ...

... Herr Georg Bernhard says, in the Vosaische Zeitung,’* the Chancellor should be given an opportunity to disperse the numerous rumours which in the last few weeks have greatly alarmed public opinion. Herr Bernhard is apparently alluding Germany’s relations ...

... the increasing numbers of Germans appearing in Greek towns along the frontier to the south of Monastir, and the amount of spying that was going on, the French Commander decided to clear them nut altogether, and he forthwith proceeded to occupy the frontier ...

... popular confidence in an early victory may lead to diminution of patriotic zeal. In some quarters it is suggested that the rumours of an early end of the war are of t , erman origin, and are intended to check our activities in recruiting and in munition-making ...

... resting beds weary, content, and undishonoured, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep. The Canal Fleet Regarding the rumours naval encounters, which are abroad week just now, the London correspondent of the Manchester Guardian says hears from Swedish ...