es and professions, and each
being known in the Bureau of Secret Police by a number only, their
monthly information being docketed under that particular number. Every
six months an "inspection" is held, and monetary rewards made to those
whose success has been most noteworthy.

The whole brigade of spies in England is controlled by a well-known
member of the German Secret Police in London, from whom the travelling
agents take their orders, and in turn transmit them to the
"fixed-posts," who are scattered up and down the country.

As I write, I have before me a file of amazing documents, which plainly
show the feverish activity with which this advance guard of our enemy is
working to secure for their employers the most detailed information.
These documents have already been placed before the Minister for War,
who returned them without comment!

He is aware of the truth, and cannot deny it in face of these
incriminating statements.

It is often said that the Germans do not require to pursue any system of
espionage in England when they can purchase our Ordnance maps at a
shilling each. But do these Ordnance maps show the number of horses and
carts in a district, the stores of food and forage, the best way in
which to destroy bridges, the lines of telegraph and telephone, and the
places with which they communicate, and such-like matters of vital
importance to the invader? Facts such as these, and many others, are
being daily conveyed by spies in their carefully prepared reports to
Berlin, as well as the secrets of every detail of our armament, our
defences, and our newest inventions.

During the last twelve months, aided by a well-known detective officer,
I have made personal inquiry into the presence and work of these spies,
an inquiry which has entailed a great amount of travelling, much
watchfulness, and often considerable discomfort, for I have felt that,
in the circumstances, some system of contra-espionage should be
established, as has been done in France.

I have refrained from giving actual names and dates, for obvious
reasons, and have therefore been compelled, even at risk of being again
denounced as a scaremonger, to present the facts in the form of
fiction--fiction which, I trust, will point its own patriotic moral.

Colonel Mark Lockwood, Member for Epping, sounded a very serious warning
note in the middle of 1908 when he asked questions of the Minister for
War, and afterwards of the Prime Minister, res