dent Kruger was no personal whim, but the
outcome of national policy!

What may happen to-morrow?

WILLIAM LE QUEUX.

THE PERIL OF ENGLAND

WHO IS RIGHT?

SIR EDWARD GREY

_In the House of Commons, March 29, 1909._

We have been informed verbally, but quite definitely, that Germany will
not accelerate her naval programme of construction, and will not have
thirteen ships of the _Dreadnought_ type, including cruisers, till the
end of 1912.

PRINCE BUELOW

_In the Reichstag, March 29, 1909._

Great Britain has never made any proposals which the German Government
regarded as a suitable basis for negotiations. Germany regards the
question of limitation of armaments as outside the range of practical
politics.

WHAT THE KAISER SAYS:

His Imperial Majesty the German Emperor declared:--

_The prevailing sentiment among large sections of the middle and lower
class of my own people is not friendly to England.--Daily Telegraph,
October 28, 1908._

SPIES OF THE KAISER

CHAPTER I

HOW THE PLANS OF ROSYTH WERE STOLEN

"But if the new plans for our naval base at Rosyth have already been
secured by Germany, I don't see what we can do," I remarked. "What's the
use of closing the stable-door after the horse has been stolen?"

"That's just what we generally do in England, my dear old Jack," replied
my friend. "We still think, as in the days of Wellington, that one
Englishman is worth ten foreigners. But remember the Boer War, and what
our shameful ignorance cost us in men and money. Now, as I explained
last night in London, the original plans of Rosyth leaked out some time
ago, and were actually published in certain Continental papers. In
consequence of this, fresh plans have been prepared and adopted by the
Lords of the Admiralty. It is one of these which Reitmeyer informs my
father is already in German hands."

"But is not Reitmeyer a German himself?" I asked.

"He's a naturalised Englishman," replied my friend Ray Raymond, drawing
hard at his pipe as he stretched himself lazily before the fire of the
inn-parlour. "It was he who gave the guv'nor a good deal of the
information upon which he based those questions he asked in the House."

"The Government refused to admit that German spies are at work in
England," I said.

"Yes, Jack. That's just why I'm down here on the Firth of Forth--in
order to accomplish the task I've set myself, namely, to prove that
German secret agents are at th