SPIES AND TRAITORS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2283, 17 October 1914, Page 8

SPIES AND TRAITORS

(To the Editor.) • Sir, —It is to'be hoped that your article on Gorman spies and the letter by "Common Senso" 'will have tho effect that is evidently desired by the writers. There is too much mawkish sentiment in tho: treatment of those traitors who have been living under the good old flag and probably—eome of them—dodging military sorvico in their own conntry. Tho Government should instruct tho police and other officials to exorcise more diligence in searching for wireless plants, etc., for no doubt there are many in the country. I know of one oase that wa.e decidedly suspicious, and when the attention of the police was called to it he merely said "he would keep an eye on it." I should imagine the proper thing would have been for him to at once havo searched the suspected place and not givo them the chance of removing any plant that was attracting attention. I am a tried .supporter of the Government, but country first and politics after. I think the Government too easy-going. A German shell dropped on Parliament Houso would bo useful. —I am, etc., ALERT.