injure, or assault any German soldier or
officer.

(_d_) Who destroy bridges or canals, interrupt railways or
telegraph lines, render roads impassable, burn munitions of
war, provisions, or quarters of the troops.

(_e_) Who take arms against the German troops.

ARTICLE XI.--The organisation of Councils of War mentioned in
Articles VIII. and IX. of the Law of May 2, 1870, and their
procedure are regulated by special laws which are the same as
the summary jurisdiction of military tribunals. In the case of
Article X. there remains in force the Law of July 21, 1867,
concerning the military jurisdiction applicable to foreigners.

ARTICLE XII.--The present order is proclaimed and put into
execution on the morrow of the day upon which it is affixed in
the public places of each town and village.

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF EAST ANGLIA.

Copy of the German Proclamation found in the Secret Store of
Arms at Burnham-on-Crouch.

The affair caused the greatest consternation at the War Office, at whose
instigation it was instantly hushed up by the police for fear of
creating undue panic.

But the truth remains--a very bitter, serious, and significant truth--of
Germany's hostile intentions at a not distant date, a date when an
Englishman's home will, alas! no longer be his castle.

CHAPTER V

THE SECRET OF THE NEW BRITISH AEROPLANE

"If we could only approach the Military Ballooning Department we might,
perhaps, learn something," I remarked. "But I suppose that's quite out
of the question?"

"Quite," declared Ray. "We should receive no information, and only be
laughed at for our trouble."

"You don't think that the new Kershaw aeroplane can be the one now being
tried by the Royal Engineers with so much secrecy on the Duke of
Atholl's estate?"

"I think not," was his prompt reply. "My reason briefly is because I
have discovered that two Germans stayed at the Blair Arms Hotel, at
Blair Atholl, for six weeks last summer, and then suddenly
disappeared--probably taking with them the plans of the airship about
which there has been so much secrecy."

"I don't quite follow you," I said.

"No, there is still another fact. A month ago there arrived in England a
man named Karl Straus, a lieutenant of the Military Ballooning
Department of the German Army stationed at Duesseldorf. He paid several
visits to our friend Hartmann in Pont St