NEED FOR CAUTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 64, 15 July 1915, Page 4

NEED FOR CAUTION.

It i s said that a good many people in England think the danger of outrages being arranged in British possessions by German spies, as a development of treacherous and inhuman warfare the Huns are waging is a very real one. Amongst these is Mr H. de Vere Stacpoole. the well-known author, who, in a letter to the London ".Morning Post," describes the activity of Gei-, man spies, and warns the public of the danger of German crime in England. He says a terrible fire took' place in Portsmouth Dockyard early in the year, and was hushed up. There are stories of new vessels with tjieg seacocks opened just before launching. There have been fires all over England,j and explosions in ammunition stores, of which the public know nothing or next to nothing. "If two men." says .Mr Stagpoole, "did all that business, in Sydney street some years ago, what can five thousand men, so armed, do". When Berlin sends its wireless message of the moment to act. we will find our telegraph wires in festoons, our bridges blown up, and troop trains derailed, and the Army fighting half paralysed by broken communications.", Possibly this is going to extremes, but it certainly behoves the authorities in every British community to be on their guard against mischief by disloyal aliens.