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It is always distressing to on- lookers to sce two of those whom they call friends at seri- ous enmity with one another. For years past it has been cause for sometimes bitter re- the flection in other parts of British Empire than England und Ireland that those two proud peoples could not sink their differences, well-weighted, linto the pool of forgetfulness. Particularly in the Dominions, where men and women of the "Home Nations" worked to- gether so amicably and 80 sympathetically, was it difficult to understand the rankling sense of injustices which kept Ireland and England from making a per- manent

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average man abroad, not one of the na- tionals concerned, could not comprehend this feud which goes back-to almost ancient history. particularly since England and Scotland and Wales have all fought ferociously against each other in times past and for years have been as brothers. Only the Anglo-Irish hatred re- mained. Neither side could for- get wrongs done and neither side would admit them. Al- though they had been close to unity at various times, there had always been an undercur- rent of distrust and a lurking

ND now the Official Secrets Trial is over at the Old Bailey. let's take a look at that most mysterious Gov- ernment office - M.1.5—— where they catch spies as casily as a fly-paper catches flies.

Its goings on must necessarily be very secret and obscure, because Its Arst function is "counter espionage."

Perhaps I know as much about it as any journalist. But I can't tell it you-or there would be an- other Official Secrets Trial with Stanley Bishop in the dock-and the Editor of the "Dally Herald" would be there by my side.

But I may properly reveal enough to debunk M.1.6 from the silly mystery in which It has been dressed up enough to show you that, it is a prosaic but very neces- sary part of the Defence of the Realm.

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Only when Official Secrets cases turn up in court does the public receive a small hint of what this ali-important protection service is doing. Then the order, "in camera," is made for police court or sessions and the real story is hidden.

Because the nature of its work requires MI.5. to retain essential anonymity.

Except in the case of one or two executives — Colonel Hinchley Cooke, for example--the names of its personnel must not be men- tioned. If their connection with the department W suspected, their

vanish. usefulness would

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AMBING-DOWN" of some ten

ill-will that mocked the hopes of AMB a half million ewes be leaders who sought co-opera- tion.

And now, almost overnight it seems, England and Ireland have come closer to full agree-

How!

longing to about twenty-five distinct

breeds of sheep in Britain is in full

swing.

The farther north you go, of course, ment than they have ever done the later the lambing, until towards carly May, the before.

That is not the end of April, or

gezson ends, clear. But credit must be given

Up on the hillsides with the hardler to the negotiators on both sides, brezda, o saugly gathered round farm- There has been a retreat fromstads in the dales, the shepherd's extremes; and the Anglo-Irish anxious job is carried out in much agreement is not the only in the way it ever was.

The shepherd's constant personal dication of this trend in their watch and skill are sill the aurest respective diplomacies. On the means of making certain of a good part of the Government of Eireiambing-down."

Mechanics has left

Contrary to the general idea, Britain. with the exception of New Zealand, Is the most densely sheep-pulated area in the world.

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the care of the flock untouched nad. a broad-mindedness and spirit strangely enough, the flock master of compromiso has been shown carries on without a subsidy! in the appointment of Dr. Hyde as President, a Protestant and a non-party man, no fire-brand, but a true patriot. And Eng-

FIGURES TALK land, or more properly Great Britain, in keeping with the At the last census England, Wales general policy of appeasement, and Scotland between them had pearly 20,000,000 sheep and lambs-as comi- has decided to forget old rival-pared with about 30,000,000 in New ries and some small bitterness Zealand. Australia actually has the and to offer her warmest friend-reatest number of sheep, but her locks are spread more thinly over a ship to the United States in a much wider area of territory.

The same new trade treaty. aim can be perceived in British relations with France and Italy, generations. the pick of the dainty Southdowns, the early Dorsets, the These are not simply the ef nardy Cheviots and the close woolled fects of the world's political.dls- Oxford and Hampshire Downs have all ruption but the proper and been exported for their respective dis

tinctive qualities, to the far ends of the natural results of progressive earth, democracy. It may well be that those recent developments in International affairs, though singly they are not of great New Zealand's justly-famous Canter significance, are alow, stumbling bury tamb (now in season in the stepa towards that world shop) fmodi appropriately named. Miis has been the piourn. of Walk- brotherhood envisaged by not are over Liose rolling foothills of New few of the thinkers to our £imės, “Zeniami'allipine ranges, named by

Most of the world's Blocks

on British blood. For founded-

Last year Argentina bought over 300 of the very select of the Kent or Romney Marsh breed, to keep up the

jamins of its flock, s

then, 1948 ay United Valev Kyskindir, Ema

"Enough of that talk, Gwendolyn., You are not to get your

divorce until your elder sister gets hers first!”

THE SPY CATCHERS

by STANLEY BISHOP

(The Famous Crime Reporter)

They must always appear to be what they are not; men and women playing a part.

For MLS. trades in the safety of the realm. It is that section of "Military Intelligence" which helps to control Britain's counter- espionage organisation.

Much has been written about the department which is pure nonsense. From every point of view it is only right that the real position should be understood.

During the present year national expenditure on all phases of "Secret Service," will exceed £500,000,

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First, there is the "Secret Ser- vice Vote," administered by the Foreign Office and the Treasury. Details of this fund-on whom, on what and how spent-are known only to the permanent secretary beads.

Accounts are kept personally by Bir Warren Fisher, chief of the Civil Service. An item appears on the reports form and that is all. Enough that the two secretaries were agreed that the outlay was

necessary, and brought immediate value-or promise of value.

Each of the fighting Services- the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force-has, in its turn, an allo- cation for secret intelligence.

The three Intelligence Branches work in the closest co-operation. There is a constant interchange of information.

Ready at call for emergency. apart from the administrative staffs, are all manner of experts,

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Included among them are those minded individuals Ingeniously who can simplify any code or cipher, no matter how dimcult.

MI.5 is the principal machine for counter-espionage and the detection of foreign agents in this country.

Under its direction are a very large number of observers, re- porters and trackers. Its eyes and cars are everywhere; in the City of London, the West End; in manu- facturing and shipbuilding towns, as well as throughout all naval

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And Mint Sauce

by John Sussex

the original settlers the Canterbury Plains,

Those early exiles from England's fair county of Kent started up their sleep-ranching prosperity with pure- bred straina of Romney ewes and rams from their native marsties.

But, like almost everything exotle in that prolific country," adaptation to the new environment brings its own changes. As with the men, so with the sbeep

There is just tual difference between the mother of a Canterbury lamb fa New Zealand and one here at home that exists between a Dominion born New Zealander and an Engllotiman.

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Both have English blood, in their veins, but time and environment have. brought about a difference that is tin- mistakable. Even the sheep's "bana" seemed to have a Dominion acecht.

But countries like Australia and New Zealand are after wool as much as mutton, and so have turned elsewhore, in course of time, for other breeds like the Merino and the Corriedale, types practically unknown on our forme.

With so many customers at his very door, our sheep-tarreer thinks, mostly of his flock in terms of lamb and ...ination...

In Australia it is the other way round-it la wool they want there-Le..

quality of wool. All breeds of sheep prodice some whol, but the sweeter the mutton the less likely is the wool to be capable of making top price which Bradford comes to buy.

The carpet manufacturer is after strong, course textures, while the economical housewife wants her shoul- der of mutton small boned. But not so many carpets are bought these days as used to be; noleum is a closer atting competitor.

And so the long-coated Lincolns and the Lonks of Westmorland arouse only limited Interest with their shaggy fleeces, with their long lega and big frames ruling them out na far as the housewife is concerned.

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Yet each brood has its points. Welsh mountain sheep do better than most in arid areas like the veldt lands of Southern Africa,

Take the folk who can afford it who like a taste of lamb at Easter tima. That is where the early lambing breeds of Dorsetshiro cono in-the Dorset Downs and the Dorset Harne

A farming man who likes sheep sol- dom likes dairy cows or pigs-though there are exceptions, naturally.

Certainly times do come in the year when the sheep can bo troublesome, when it means stopping up all night to help the awes at lambing. WAT

But these are not jobs which usually have to be done un à Bunday, Nor do they interfere, in the general way of speaking, with a farmer's love for getting off to market."?k=

Besides, there are always men who ktow a sheep better than they'd know' a cow. horse or a plz:

ports, garrisons and Royal Air Force stations nt abroad.

home and

Within every commercial under- taking holding contracts from the Government is somo person- prominent or obscure--who will supply ML5 with the facts wanted in event of need.

Example of what is done: Sabot- age was suspected in the Royal Dockyards. Certain engineer officers, because of their experi- ence in shipbuilding yards of the North and on the Clyde, were detailed for special duty,

They were taken on as crafts- men and labourers in the dock- yards. They were the mates of the ordinary workpeople for months. Doing all sorts of jobs, they mixed

Officers became with the men, dockyard workers. All the while, they were reporting on things seen and heard until a dossier of evi- dence was complete.

All agents of M.I.S are picked on the same principle. Men and women who can mix within any required company are chosen.

Quite possibly a member of your own family, or your next-door- neighbour, may be acting in some sphere for MI6.

with Association Working in MI5 is the Special Political) Branch of Scotland Yard. ·Valu able assistance is also given by the of the Investigation Branches

the General Post Omeo, and Customs, and the allens officers of the Home Office.

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"I.B." of the Post Office is parti- cularly useful in dealing with the apparently innocent correspond- ence of suspects. Remember that In the case of Baillie Stewart, the Ex-Army officer spy, every move af his was known in advance, mainly through the letters he wrote.

Usually, it is after preliminaries that the help of the Yard Special Branch is obtained, Inquiries havo reached a stage when a detective officer can

properly continue. Besides, there are cases which nover reach the courts. A visitor from a foreign State in England for outward business or pleasure, seems to take an undue amount of Interest in things which MIS would rather he did not know about. Perhaps it is simply curl- osity. Anyway, it is not desirable. Bo through the Home Office and the police with MI5 pulling the strings, the foreigner la politely told that he is no longer truly wel- come in England.

A stream of information from a thousand and one sources in this country and abroad daily renchés the offices of M.1.5 for addition to the records or for possible imme- diate action.

Sensational excitement would be caused if some of the names on those files were over made known.

It is hard work: drab work in the main. And. belleve mo, the Balarles of the men,“ whoso names must not be mentioned,” would not excite an income tax, collector.

Results are the criterion for pay- monta in any enterprise. Beyond question MI5 does get thosd re- puits.

To-day's Thought THE search for knowledge la dangerous. You may "learn'mich" aðdüf others, but", others may learn, too, mW:

about you.

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