The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THE SPY MENACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 84, 13 April 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THE SPY MENACE.

Germany has carried on her war with England since June 1902 by an Intelligence Department supremely efficient in many details but strangely blind to great tacts in its higher direction. The downfall of England is assured if wo come out of this war without learning the lesson which we refused to learn from Napoleon, from the Crimean war unci i'rpm the Boers, says Mr Arnold White in the Daily Express. He also goes on to show that the German spy system in England cost the Fatherland nearly a million pounds a year. Some of the money was wasted but on the whole tnere was never a more profitable investment made by any Government. English trade secrets were captured, vast profits were diverted from Britain to Prussia and South Germany. The German clerk who worked for nothing and rilled the safe of his English master's secrets was part of the system. Tile suggestion to British working men, clerks, shopmen, and salaried employees that they would be just as well off under the Kaiser as under the King, we now know to be the scientific work of the Gorman spy department. What Briton thinks now that he would be just as well off under the Crown Prince when he is Emperor as under King George, whose sons at the front are modest and dutiful, and who maintain the unapproachable ideal of British officers and gentlemen!-' To those who grasp the facts of the situation it is clear that the day alter peace is signed Germany will re-establish her spy system in England. Mr White commends Mr William l.e Queux's book on German spies in England, especially the latter part, to the great public, and ask--: Who were more 1 laughed at, denounced, and lampooned any time during the last twelve years than those who attempted to place the known facts relating to German espionage before the public ?