... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...