... isolation of Port Arthur was temporary, the evacuation of Netvchwang was not instant. Corre spondents dependent on Chinese rumours and experts overlooking the difficulties of landing large forces on shallow, muddy coasts and pushing them forward along rivers ...

... pardon, sir, but I did not quite catch your name as I came in I hear that you are not going to marry that young man to whom rumour says you are engaged, said the girl's friend. Well, was the reply, father thinks he isn't rich enough, and mother thinks ...

... ESPIONAGE The officials at the Czech Legation in Stockholm and their families who were ordered to leave after the breaking of a spy ring are seen at Stockholm Airport. From right are Mr. Jaroslav Vlcek, the Czech Minister in Stockholm, who accompanied the ...

... 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 ...

... wicked rumour in the house that the manuscript had been discovered in the ruins of the old dust- hole when it was being con verted into the beautiful new- theatre, and that it had been sent in during the vogue of Diplomacy. Of course the rumour was a ...

... HAD the rumour been true that Samson at Dalila was given at Covent Garden only at the request of Queen Alexandra-- who, it is said, par ticularly desired to hear the opera, hitherto forbidden because of the Biblical origin of its story-- it might have ...

... anything, it is an emphasis of the world-wide tendency to expansion and amalgamation and the elimination of territorial J IV A S a Spy Made- 1 leine Carroll and Herbert Marshall as the British agents working as nurse and orderly in a German hospital behind the ...

... distinctly those days when we were cooped up at night behind breastworks of mealie-bags, and when every day brought rumour after rumour of invading hordes passing over the Natal border, or advancing to sweep away our ill- furnished little gathering of ...

... shall get them seats for All Clear. Beatrice Lillie is more completely adorable than ever, and I could see her international spy act every night. She had supper with me afterwards and she was wearing a hat which must have come out of a Christmas cracker ...

... in the flesh will understand. _ At Pera they are all huddled appy go uc y together, all watching each England other, almost spying upon each other. If any Ambassador pays a visit to another, it is at once the subject of riotous speculation among the rest ...

... Presently there came a sound of hissing through the teeth. Please, said the spy, what language do you speak? They told him. A drawn out sodesca and more hissing. Then suddenly the spy's face lit up. He rose. I go, he explained, to find a colleague who u ...

... now whispering in Krim's ear, dressed as a dancing girl. These legends will work their effect, you know. Lawrence Anglais spy. Say it often enough, plug it, et puis voilk 1 At all events, WE ARE THE SPIES. One would assume we litter the Continent to-day ...