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ARREST OF EX MAYOR TRAWLER OWNER,
Councillor Tank Barrett, J.P., ex Meyor of Grigsby and managing director of the Orient Steam Fishing Company Ltd., and his outdoor manager, were recently taken into custody on telegraphie and subsequently brought before a special sitting of the Magistrate.
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January 10th and arrived in Loudon on providing against every conocivable con- instructions received from the War OfIERE
January 28th gives an interesting account of the manifold tricks employed by the swarms of German secret agents in the capital to trap Englishmen, who on detee tion are instantly arrested and sent off to the concentration camps in Germany. He
NO WORD OF CALAIS,
Mr. Frederic Wile, late Berlin Cor respondent of The Daily Mail, writes
Germany's masterly far-sightedness tingency of war organisation of her thin ning food and row stuff supplies, official inculcation of frugality, speeding up" of patriotism by the cinema, ofcis manifested afresh by a remarkable scheme to retain the cripples of war as useful members of society There has just been "I am credibly informed that there are formed at Wiesbaden a committee of some 10,000 German secret agents in clergyman, university and public school FIVE YEARS. Belgium to-day. They are paid £1 a day rectors, and teachers of both sexes who are and get a bonus for each arrest, Ten undertaking the systematic educa- pounds is the price on an Englishman' tion of soldiers condemned to go head, five pounds for a member of the civic through life minus legs, arms, hearing, or sight. Ninety-five volunteers liave guard, and less amounts for sellers of already announced their willingness to Englisa newspapors,
give their time to the work,
Cripples will be taught while still convalescent in war hospitals Men who have lost right arms or hande will be shown how to use the left armas and hands, among other things, to write. If the scheme works out satisfactorily in a teat hospital at Wiesbaden (where of 2,000 wounded it is estimated that 60 are crippled for life) it will be extended in all directions. It is hoped that ways and meats may develop for preserving from economic rain thou sands of maimed soldiers who might otherwise be permanently deprived of bread-winning capacity
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A favourite method of the spies, all of whom speak French and English, is to walk along the street reading a news paper. As soon as they see anybody whom they suspect to be British they knock against him and then apologize in English, If the individual is British and is taken off his gitard he replies in English. He is immediately asked for his papers and
is conducted to the Kommandatur
Another trick is to sidle up alongside their victim and offer for sale in an under tone a copy of The Times or the Daily Mail. Or again, they will stare about the and will say in English to the man they are after, Excuse me, I am a stranger here and don't speak the language. Can you direct me to the station or some such remark. Many Englishmen have been caught in this way,
TOO MANY FOR A CLERGYMAN."'.
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NO MOBE TALE OF CERTAIN VICTORY, Though there are still isolated. cases of bombast with regard to the future of the war, one encounters in the German Press nowadays less and less cocksure assevera tons of certain victory I have not seen the word Calais for a month. A Reserve Corps by its commander, General New Year's greeting issued to the 9th von Boelin, contains this significant passage MEN
I was rearly taken in one day A man, dressed to look the English clergy- man to the life, with a little bag in his "hand, came up to me and asked the way! You may look back upo the first fivo
in perfect English. IIis manner and appearance were very convincing, but was not taking any risks, so I replied, Je ne comprende pas, monsieur where upon my clergyman shrugged his should ers and, handing his bag to a German soldier went off. Yet another trick is for one of these men to get in a tramway car and apparently have some difficulty in explaining his destination to the con-
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SECOND PROGRAMME!!! AN ENTIRE CHANGE. TO-NIGHT (THURSDAY). MARCH 4TH ductor in English. The idea, of course,
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will be the scene of popular offerings of he said, been predominant in England, Despite all these devices the German all sorts of woollen garments designed to and although we recognised the beauty spies have not done so well as they might minister to the comforts of the soldiers and the genius of the German masters the Of the 30,000 registered British residen in the damp and frozen trenches east and people of England must at the present of Brussels, including women
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Housewives are taking a lending time be longing for a national art which children, only about 1,700 British male part in the movement, and the Red Cross would find its source of inspiration in the subjects have been arrested. On January public appeal urges them to send to folk lore of their own country. 10th a notice was posted up throughout the various centres where articles will be the city requiring all subjects of the assembled everything they can spare in countries at war with Germany to report the way of woollen and cation wearing themselves without fail at the Kom apparel for both men and women (femi- mandatur at 3 a.m. on January 12th for sine clothing can be remade usefully) the purpose of being registered in the handkerchiefs, mullers, gloves, stockings It appears that control lists, and stating that all who boots, and carpets," failed to appear would be dealt with many well-to-do families are placing car! under military law. The next day 1 Office for the purpose of making trendlies pete and rugs at the disposal of the War notice announced that this did not apply
more habitable. to French subjects for the prezent, and Japanee in Brussels is a negligible quantity, the measure was obviously directed against the British. This latest notice would not have perturbed them much, as hundreds have succeeded in keep ing out of German clutches, had there not been a special provision in the notice the effect that all proprietors of hotels, apartments, lodging houses, etc., must denounce any Engishman living in their them be extended by a permanent organisation.The need of such centres at house on pain of being treated as accom plices. This was a clever move, for many pre ont is only a tithe of what it will be. Englishmen would be willing to get The League of Women's United Service into trouble those who were befriending Clubs has been founded with the object of It is not an furthering the work. them
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There a woman met me. I made the best of it. * Madome,' I said, "I am Eng- lish. You can either denounce me or befriend me. Which will you do!" "And I, sir, was her only answer, am French ' She let a room to me, and I only went Thirty thousand men connected with one PIDGIN GERMAN THREATS BY A BIll fores sad Sizes. out after dark until a fresh alarm drove department or another of the General
CHILD OF ELEVEN, me away. I changed my quarters eight Post Office have joined the colours. They
BMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED times until this last notice decided me include postmen, sorters, telegraphiste, Threatening postcards alleged to have SROT From No. 10 to £88G, at $6, 87 and to make a bold bid to escape to Holland, and officials of the Headquarters Staff. been written by a child of eleven, Eliza **** I made four different attempts to get Down to a late date 570 had died in their beth Mary Cassy, formed the subject of a $7.50 per 100. SPORTING REQUISITES across the frontier without a pass. The country's cause. Their comrades in the charge in the St. Helen's Police Court and AIR GUNS in Variety, last succeeded, and a smuggler piloted me service are also showing a fine spirit of recently. into Holland in the dead of night. But patriotism. They have decided to look. The chief constable explained that next I had not seen the last of my shadowers. after the welfare of the dependents of door to the girl's mother lived Mrs. Alicə
Inspection Invited, In the lobby of my hotel at Rotterdam a their friends in the fighting services. A Smith, a soldier's wife Mrs. Casey man touched me on the shoulder I fund has been raised by voluntary dedue wished her sister to have the next door turned. He was one of the German deter- tions of one penny in the pound on house, and the chief constable alleged tha: tires from Brussels. He did not know me,daries, which will bring in between at a family gathering she made the sugges for I had shaved off my beard and 270,000 and £80,000 a year. Already tion that they should try and frighten moustache. I have made a mistake, he there are 266 widows who will benefit. Mrs. Smith out of the house. Accordingly
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they started knocking on the wall and writing postcards One postcard said: DOCTOR'S FRAULEIN SMIrn, If you don't answer my little note as I have told you, you shall be murdered in your bed. 1, Fritz, will give you your last charco. Woe to you i you don't submit yourself to me. Ach, I vil murter yon in cold bloodUSE The second note said: On the second day of the week thou, Fraulein Smith, ehall die een baada
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