lat State-
ment.
I have instructed .F.W. and the two Sappers not to
mention to anyone what has happened.
12th November, 1910.
(signed) W.M.PYNE,
Major, R.E.,
D.0.1.
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Statements in the case of supposed espionage
Mt. Davis Battery.
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No. 18917 Sapper D.HISCOCKS, 25th Company, R.E. states:-
"A". On Saturday the 5th November, 1910, I was sent with Sap-
per BOLTON to Mount Davis in relief of other men. We went
out by tram to Kennedy Town, and not knowing our way we asked
a civilian, European - who was in the tram with us, which
He told us to turn up by the
was the way to Mount Davis.
flagstaff on Jubilee Road. We got tothe flagstaff and turned
up a concrete road as far as the first bend, and then thought
we had lost our way; it was a misty, rainy day, and couldn't
see very far. We turned back and went further along Jubilee
Road about a mile when we came to a road with a notice board
with "Deacon'a Bungalow" on it. Seeing telephone wires to the
bungalow, we went to it to see if we could telephone to our
corporal at Mount Davis. Just as we got to the house a civi-
lian we had met on the tram came up and said "I suppose you
have lost your way": we said we had, and he asked us if we
would come in and have some refreshment, while his boy was
-
getting drinks hw went into the house we being on the ver-
andah
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and brought out two large rolls of plans, about five
feet long.
#B. He