THE SPY MENACE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2686, 4 February 1916, Page 8

THE SPY MENACE

HE MAY BE YOUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOUR. Speaking at a recent recruiting meeting at Gore Hill; Sydney, presided over by the Mayor of Lane Cove (Alderman Tomblin), Mr. John Haynos, M.L.A,,' said': "Your next-door neighbour may be a Gorman spy, who may be quietly working to place bombs in passenger steamers, tluis i .destroying non-combat-ants." The spy menace, ho declared, was here in our midst, and he had recently received authentic personal assurances from America that Australia was honeycombed with German spies, even as America was; and in Australia they were only awaiting their opportunity to make their presence felt. It therefore behoved nil men to combine and enlist, so (that this monstrous combination of German militarism and its spy ramifications throughout tho globe should bo placed liors-de-combat for all time, if the world Was ever to know peace. Germany would not be allowed to bring the whole world under her hoel as she had hoped. None had done moro to prevent this downtreading than the Australians, and he was sure that all those Australians still -in tho Commonwealth, even if up to 60 years of age, would march shoulder to shoulder in the cause of liberty. (Cheers.)