SECRET SERVICE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1928, Page 4

SECRET SERVICE.

FA AIDES A DENT IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, .Tan. f>. The ‘‘Daily Cluardian’’ publishes an interesting story concerning a famous Secret Service agent. Captain Nicholas Everett, who arrived in Sydney by the Changle on AYednosday. He was formerly an officer in the British Secret Service ami the ex-Kaiser put a big m ice on bis bead during tbe war. He fias seven deep knile scars on various parts ot bis liody, a jugulai vein which lias boon .severed and patched by surgery, and a bole in-bis bead as ‘big as a ben’s egg.

“Among numerous daring exploits, snvs tbe “Guardian.” “Captain Everett secured for the British A\ ai Office details of the mammoth enemy gun, Big Bertha, the Zeppelins, and silhouettes of the German fleet before and after the battle of Heligoland. Tfe was also responsible tor capturing some of tbe most dangerous male and female German spies who operated against the Allies. It was in the guise of a German fisherman busily fishing off Kiel that lie obtained the valuable naval silhouettes which led to the price being put on bis bead suhsoquontlv. Pursued from the Zeppelin works on one occasion, be managed to reach an island, and when his pursuers reached it later he joined them in the search for himself in a peas-

ant’s disguise. . . . “H e j s the author of ‘The Britisi Foreign Secret Service Dining flic AY nr.,’ published by Hutchinson in 1920. While in Australia he is going to tickle up wlrat trout lie can find, and will then be tripping across vi.e Tasman to join Zane Grey and other international fishermen in the quest for giant swordfish and other deepwater denizens.”