WHO TOLD BERLIN?

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 207, 8 September 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHO TOLD BERLIN?

Mr. William Lo Queux, tho w.ellknown writer and novelist, writing to the "Daily Sketch" on the subject, says:—" It is to be hoped that the authorities will now at last awaken to tho fait that Germany possesses some very rapid and secret mode of communication between London and Berlin, n truth which I have several times endeavoured, to point out. The tragic en 1 of Lord Kitchener once again reiterates tho peril. The first news of the disas-, ter was issued by the Press Bureau at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, and instantly the evening papers gave the news to Great Britain. Yet within 60 minutes the same news was actually being distributed Ivy Berlin! Now m peace-time an ordinary message, even one of those with the rod docket gummed to it marking it as a Government message, would take as long or longer to reach tho German capital. Tho Germans 1 ave some secret mode of communication which our intell : gence department —excellent though it is—has not yet discovered! A leakage, and a v.eiy serious leakage, apparently from Mime official quarter somewhere, has been in progress evr since the war began. Berlin knows what is going on in London before, the man in the street knows!"