was taken to the roof,
and his inspection quickly completed. Ten minutes later the London
police were there to inquire for a man in khaki uniform.

The English officer said, "Very singular, we are ten minutes behind
that fellow everywhere. He is the cleverest of all the German spies,
and we are not able to catch him!"

If that spy had been caught in his English uniform inspecting English
defenses, would not everything have been kept quiet in the endeavor to
pick up the lines of his foreign communications?

In writing home from England, even to my family, toward the close of
1914, I thought it just as well to be brief and not too definite with
any information. I had seen some of the censorship regulations and
envelopes resealed with a paper bearing heavy black letters, "Opened by
censor," with the number of the censor, showing that there are more
than one hundred people engaged in this work; and also directions from
the censorship that "responses to this inquiry must be submitted,"
etc., etc.

Nobody could believe until this war broke out and there descended upon
peaceful Belgium not only armies and demands for their shelter,
maintenance and food, and drink, but also huge demands for financial
indemnification--war tax levies upon cities, towns, and provinces, with
individuals held as hostages for their payment--that German war plans
meant the looting, not only of nations and states, but of individual
fortunes and properties.

It now seems that the march to Paris through Belgium and the imposition
of a huge redemption tax upon Paris and France were but the
preliminaries to larger demands upon London and England.

Indeed, judged by the demands upon Belgium, the German plans
contemplated the transfer of the wealth of France and the British
Empire to Germany; and such enslavement of these peoples as would make
Germany rich, powerful and triumphant for many generations, if not
forever, over the whole habitable globe. The German minister at
Washington sounded a true German note when he asked who should question
the right of Germany to take Canada and the British possessions in
North America. Were they not at war, and if Germany were able, should
she not possess them?

It had been understood before this war that countries were invaded
under ideas of national defense. But possession of countries for the
absorption of their wealth and the enslavement of their people, to work
thereafter for the victors, was believe