THE KING OF SPIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 75, 31 March 1915, Page 4

THE KING OF SPIES.

According to a London correspondent just now German William’s English friends who reside in England are, placed in a peculiar, and even awkward position. Xo one imagines for" a moment that the Kaiser’s friends ever acted or even thought of acting as spies, hut the fact remains that in perfect good faith and without ever considering the harm it might do im Britain, some of these people undoubtedly give the Kaiser informa-j tion which has probably proved of, much more use to the .German Em-J peror and his military and naval organisers than any inforation that has. been gleaned from German waiters' and other now “suspected” persons;, in a humble rank of life in England.* It was the Kaiser’s habit of late, years to stay in England as the personal guest of some of his friends. During the past few years he did so in strict incognito. He was the guest in July. 1912, of a retired English ad-j miral with whom he has been on terms of the most intimate arid close friendship for the past thirty years. The. admiral has kept closely in touch with naval affairs since his retirement and has several intimate friends in the Admiralty Board. What (was more natural than that he should discuss naval matters with the Kaiser, and what more likely that in his bluffj English way he gave his guest information, some of which, at any rate, was probably extremely useful?