THE SPY MENACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 68, 25 February 1916, Page 4

THE SPY MENACE.

The spy menace which recent revelations has shown to he very real in all parts of the British Empire, was thus referred to by Mr John Haynes, M.B. A. at a recruiting meeting at Sydney a few days ago: “Your next-door neighbour may be a Berman spy, who may be quietly working to place bombs in passenger steamers, thus destroy-

non-combatants.” The spy menace, bo declared, was here in Sydney , midst, and lie had Recently received 1 authentic personal assurances from America that Australia was honeycombed with German spies, even as America was ; and in Australia they were only waiting their opportunity to make their presence felt. It therefore behoved all men to combine and enlist, so that this monstrous combination of German militarism and its spy ramifications throughout the globe should he placed hors-de-combat for all time, if the world was ev/w to know peace. Germany would not be allowed to ; bring the whole world under her heel \as she had hoped. None had done | more to prevent this downtreading i than the Australians, and ho was sure j that all those Australians still in the 1 Commonwealth, even if up to sixty years of age. would march shoulder to shoulder in the cause of liberty.