ALLEGED SECRET CABLE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 19, 27 April 1916, Page 4

ALLEGED SECRET CABLE.

“The far-reaching and in some eases* the c’rnost iueoneeivable prepai'ations of Germany for the war. make manj otherwise improbable schemes at least passible in the light of experience.” lit these words, says the Press, a contributor of an extremely sober English paper seeks to disarm the incredulity with which, as lie recognises, his theory of a secret Orman cable across the North Sen may be received. The reason for suspecting the existence ol such a cable is the extraordinary rapidity with which news from England reaches the Orman authorities. The cable, if it is in existence, would not need to be more than a light single-core type, which could lie easily laid before the war by vessels of the class of the mine-laying “neutral trawlers,” which were fairly common in the North Sea at one time. There were, as is known, many German spies and agents on the East Coast, and the difficulty of landing the cable, it is suggested, might easily have been got over by means of a drain-pipe or sewer running into the sea, and the necessary current could be supplied by any ordinary country-house lighting plant. Therd is nothing impossible in the theory that a secret cable was one of Germany’s innumerable methods of preparing for war. It is probable that we have not yet seen the last of them.