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LORD CHETWYND'S RUSE

... monument to one of the cleverest anti-spy rnancruvres of the war, thought out by Lord Chetwynd. who built and personally took charge of the shellfilling factory at Chilwell in 1915. Herein lies the story cf the greatest spy hoax cf the war—a hoax that had as ...

Published: Saturday 10 June 1933
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Moth About the Maws. Factory

... Moth About the Maws. Factory Spy Story. Visooust Chetwyod's Joke. Three graves, now covered with moss and ivy, with a black wooden cross at the head of each, can be seen in a wood near the Chilwell Army Ordnance Factory. The graves are about ten yards ...

Published: Saturday 07 August 1926
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 144 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Chatterbugs Breed Jitterbugs A Wise _Head Keeps A Still Tongue OLD WOMAN AND A GOOSE By OWEN RUTTER

... from spreading gossip and rumours, which even though spoken without 11l intent, may have disastrous results. And Rumour The difference between gossip and rumour is that while gossip may repeat information which is true, rumour often lacks even a foundation ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 426 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Beware Of Spies

... to be more insidious during the static period of a war, when there is little or no news: rumour, on the other hand, becomes more prevalent in times of stress. Rumour nearly always refers to : disasters than to victories, and serves the enemy's purpose by ...

Published: Saturday 06 July 1940
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 351 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Recruylng Problems

... before the tribunals which otherwise they could not. Influence, and even money are being employed in this ignoble dodge, and rumour says that sums up to £lOO have changed hands in I these little conspiracies to defeat the law --premiums for sw•elt shirkers ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1916
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 956 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

a Speciality. TAYLOR & ROSS,

... detention, and Le knew he was also feeding men who were spying on his every action. He even went so far as to christen one of his own grandchildren for fear he should be entertaining another spy, in the garb lof a priests One historian goes so far as ...

Published: Saturday 14 June 1919
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1707 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

FOR KING AND EMPIRE

... Tremont that. likely enauTh, they would be unable to return ere going to Cumberland to put So Diudr in commission; for if the rumour of the approach of the German airship was true, their presence would be needed in the air at once. Gies her top speed, Jack ...

Published: Saturday 04 March 1916
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1027 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

IRIT OF CARNIVAL DEFIES CLERK OF WEATHER

... the fact that in dry seasons the City authority had come to the assistance of the town In providing a supply of water. And rumour has it that this water is very good to drink, observed Mr. Frayne laughter He thanked the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress for ...

Published: Friday 09 September 1938
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1969 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Councillor W. Dodson

... amusement and dropped to sleep ? If he had had the nightmare, seeing he said he had enjoyed the pictures ? lacredslous Spy Stories. Sensational spy stories, equalled only oy the imaginative inventions of cinema plot writers, have been shaking Bulwell to its ...

Published: Saturday 27 March 1915
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2208 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

NOTTINGHAM

... circumstances justify. various inquiries to be made, says the Yorkshire Post, with the object of testing the substance of these rumours, without result, but in view of their wide prevalence and persistence we addressed a direct question to the Official Press ...

Published: Saturday 05 September 1914
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2325 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

spECIAL ARTICLE. THE AD Y after day, week after week , the Press has chronicled the portentous events of Europe's

... Tipperary. The other day a German spy was discovered by' a soldier running a spent into a sack of potatoes on a barrow about to cross the Russian frontier. Could it have been a Scotchman speerin' round who discovered the spy? When German prisoners are taken ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1914
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 2674 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

THE RI

... committed by children 268 were actual thefts of money, and in the majority of cases the usual excuse of wanting the We have heard rumours of likely developments in local traction in the form of a company running motor 'buses from Hucknail to Bulwell to join the ...

Published: Saturday 01 November 1913
Newspaper: Beeston Gazette and Echo
County: Nottinghamshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2322 | Page: 4 | Tags: none