... SPY RUMOURS (T. the Miter of the &Nisei SlR,—Although we are now entering only the third week of the war, there are already many so-called spy rumours pervading the town. Not only are innocent people being wronged, but the mentality also of the spreaders ...

... The gossips never seem to stop to ask why • spy should choose Hawick for the scene of his operations—a peaceful country town of no military eignificence whatever. In one ease the source of the absurd rumour has been tracked down to narrow limits, and ...

... ABSURD SPY STORIES Head Wardens' Protest (To the Editor of the Express.) Sin,—You have previously commented on the stupidity of the spy rumours circulating in the town. None but the very credulous or the born cossip•monger would, of course, pay any attention ...

... to Hawick lost west-ad alter an adventurous holiday in Darin his shame sensational rumours spread throughout Hawick, and even further afield, that he was a German spy, that he had escaped hurriedly whoa war broke out; and that he had been arrested end ...

... space by setting up the spreading rumours and laying them low. Incidentally, the frank statement published in last week's Express over the signature of the A.R.P. Wardens has very effectively throttled the crop of absurd spy stories, and the last has been ...

... should all be well known, but unfortunately they are not, with the result that the whisperers, deprived of their fictitious spy stories, are now carrying tales of waste and extravagance, which, for the most part, do not exist. The Home Front needs s ...

... by a large employer of labour in the Burghs , will be forthwith realised. Indeed, it is rumoured that even etn. west sanguine of the Home Rulers, who nave been spying out the lay of the laud, are distinctly of opinion that no one lees influential than ...

... three acts, from the Comedy Theatre, London, and is magnifivently staged by a N'eskEnd cast. Rumour, thrills, and an occaaional dramatic with a sinister spy lurking ever in the background. are sampled in Troublesome Wives. plot is on the mKfiinatiums ...

... jmn the French worst service. Her Brat 'engin:neat is to discover whether Paul de blunt:mbar& an admirer of bers, is a German spy, as the authorities sue pent. By impersonating a washerwoman, Olympe gets from de Hontrichard a shirt with a plan pencilled ...

... all spies, but he had left the town somewhat suddenly for a holiday tour in Finland just before war broke out, and so Dame Rumour got very busy with his name, which persisted on the lips of a remarkable number of otherwise quite sensible people. All sorts ...

... providing the means of living on a scale which seemed far beyond • niein in • modest position. So, apparently. the rumours spread rapidly. as rumours always do. earlier, so our hours of cycling were reduced. Arriving at Liinahamari. we saw the Arctic Ocean, ...

... idea of trotting Bristow to refrain from taking the stop had threatened, perhaps even of invoking his aid in stemminsr the rumours which were becoming so prevalent. In a number of wavs the' conclusion he had come to annoyed Keith Henderson. He did not like ...