British Secret Service During the Great War

WAR AND THE INTRODUCING OF JIM PAGE THE PROSPERITY OF 1914--AN OMINOUS CALM--MULTITUDE OF GERMAN SPIES--HOW ENGLAND WAS UNDERMINED--SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF OUR LIBERAL GOVERNMENT--S...

ESPIONAGE IN PAST AGES--MODERN BRITISH SECRET SERVICE FOUNDED, 1910--POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS--COMPARISONS--JEALOUSIES OF BIG DEPARTMENTS--EXAMPLES OF RECKLESS EXTRAVAGANCE--BUSINE...

GRAMMATICAL CODE--A TÊTE-À-TÊTE--CONFIDENCES--MISCONSTRUED MESSAGE LEADS TO DOMESTIC TRAGEDY--LOCAL CODES--AN ALTERED MESSAGE--AN IMPORTANT MISSION--SHADOWED--ATTEMPTED THEFTS O...

COAST-HUNTING--A FIND--SPIES OF MANY NATIONS--OBLITERATING TRAILS--TRACKING DOWN THE "BERLIN"--MARVELLOUS NAVIGATION BY GERMANS--INTERNED--GERMAN ARSON--AN IMPUDENT INVITATION--...

RETREAT AND WOULD-BE REST--WINTRY WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA--THE SECRET MESSAGE--RIVAL'S REMOVAL COMMANDED FORTHWITH--SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSITION--SEEKING ONE'S COLLEAGUES--...

DANGER WARNING--DISGUISED TEUTONS--HAIR-TESTS--OBSERVATION FROM WITHOUT--CLEVER FEMALE GUARD--DEPORTED HUN AGENTS--TOO MANY WRECKS--BOOT CHANGE TRICK--FLIGHT--PATIENCE UNREWARDE...

GERMANY'S WESTERN COAST--SHOOTING WILD-FOWL AND BEING SHOT AT--AN INTREPID SPORTSMAN--COLLAPSED ZEPPELIN--ESCAPING WAR PRISONERS--CARELESS LANDSTURMERS--A SUPPOSED-TO-BE NORWEGI...

KALEIDOSCOPE CHANGES IN SECRET SERVICE AGENT'S LIFE--CALLED TO NORWEGIAN CAPITAL FOR ORDERS--ENFORCED IDLENESS--A WAR GAMBLER--HUGE CREDITS--TWISTING THE TAIL OF THE BRITISH LIO...

FRONTIER GUARDS--SMUGGLERS--RIGOROUS SEARCHES--UNEARTHING VALUABLE GERMAN SECRETS REGARDING SUPER-ZEPPELINS, SUBMARINES AND THE PARIS BIG CANNON--A LOQUACIOUS WAITER--HEAD-MONEY...

GRAVE IMPUTATIONS--NORWEGIAN CHARACTERISTICS--CASEMENT'S LETTER TO SIR EDWARD GREY--IRISH INTERESTS--SURREPTITIOUS VISITS TO THE EMBASSY--ENVOYÉ EXTRAORDINAIRE--£10,000 FOR CASE...

"YOU BRITISH WILL ALWAYS BE FOOLS AND WE GERMANS SHALL NEVER BE GENTLEMEN"--SILHOUETTE LIFEBOAT FOR GUN-COVERING--A SECRET OF THE WAR EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED--MORE IDEASFOR MY...

HOW THE DASTARDLY DEED WAS PLANNED--COMMEMORATION MEDAL PREMATURELY DATED--SINKING ANNOUNCED IN BERLIN BEFORE THE VESSEL WAS ATTACKED--GERMAN JOY AT THE OUTRAGE--BRITISH SECRET...

MINISTERS SELECTED BY INFLUENCE, NOT MERIT--GERMAN EMBASSIES HEADQUARTERS OF ESPIONAGE--HOW ENGLISH EMBASSIES HAMPERED SECRET SERVICE WORK--BERNHARDI ON THE BLOCKADE--ENGLAND'S...

SECRET SERVICE PROTEST AGAINST THE OPEN DOOR TO GERMANY--ACTIVITY OF OUR NAVAL ARM NULLIFIED--LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S PATRIOTISM--BLOCKADE BUNKUM--POSITION OF DENMARK--HUGE CONSIGNME...

THE PROSPERITY OF 1914--AN OMINOUS CALM--MULTITUDE OF GERMAN SPIES--HOW ENGLAND WAS UNDERMINED--SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF OUR LIBERAL GOVERNMENT--SECRET KNOWLEDGE OF PROMINENT MEN--SI...

ESPIONAGE IN PAST AGES--MODERN BRITISH SECRET SERVICE FOUNDED, 1910--POSSIBLE IMPROVEMENTS--COMPARISONS--JEALOUSIES OF BIG DEPARTMENTS--EXAMPLES OF RECKLESS EXTRAVAGANCE--BUSINE...

The only open route to Northern Europe which members of belligerent nations could safely take was through Bergen in Norway. The Wilson Line from Hull to Christiania continued to...

GRAMMATICAL CODE--A TÊTE-A-TÊTE--CONFIDENCES--MISCONSTRUED MESSAGE LEADS TO DOMESTIC TRAGEDY--LOCAL CODES--AN ALTERED MESSAGE--AN IMPORTANT MISSION--SHADOWED--ATTEMPTED THEFTS O...

COAST HUNTING--A FIND--SPIES OF MANY NATIONS--OBLITERATING TRAILS--TRACKING DOWN THE _BERLIN_--MARVELLOUS NAVIGATION BY GERMANS--INTERNED--GERMAN ARSON--AN IMPUDENT INVITATION--...

RETREAT AND WOULD-BE REST--WINTRY WEATHER IN THE NORTH SEA--THE SECRET MESSAGE--RIVAL'S REMOVAL COMMANDED FORTHWITH--SEEMINGLY IMPOSSIBLE PROPOSITION--SEEKING ONE'S COLLEAGUES--...

DANGER WARNING--DISGUISED TEUTONS--HAIR TESTS--OBSERVATION FROM WITHOUT--CLEVER FEMALE GUARD--DEPORTED HUN AGENTS--TOO MANY WRECKS--BOOT CHANGE TRICK--FLIGHT--PATIENCE UNREWARDE...

So many people imagine that anyone and everyone who is engaged in detective or Secret Service work carries about with him a large assortment of wigs, false hair, and other disgu...

GERMANY'S WESTERN COAST--SHOOTING WILD-FOWL AND BEING SHOT AT--AN INTREPID SPORTSMAN--COLLAPSED ZEPPELIN--ESCAPING WAR PRISONERS--CARELESS LANDSTURMERS--A SUPPOSED-TO-BE NORWEGI...

Whilst prowling along the northern frontier of Germany in the early spring of 1915, with a companion whom I would have trusted with my life, we quite unwittingly got caught in a...

KALEIDOSCOPIC CHANGES IN SECRET SERVICE AGENT'S LIFE--CALLED TO NORWEGIAN CAPITAL FOR ORDERS--ENFORCED IDLENESS--A WAR GAMBLER--HUGE CREDITS--TWISTING THE TAIL OF THE BRITISH LI...

A Secret Service agent should never assume a character he is not absolutely familiar with, both inside and out. It is possible to act up to a certain pitch, which will carry a c...

FRONTIER GUARDS--SMUGGLERS--RIGOROUS SEARCHES--UNEARTHING VALUABLE GERMAN SECRETS REGARDING SUPER ZEPPELINS, SUBMARINES AND THE PARIS BIG CANNON--A LOQUACIOUS WAITER--HEADMONEY...

Germans in neutral countries during the war were circumspect. They swarmed everywhere, and never in the history of commercial enterprise since the world began were seen so many...

On one occasion, after I had left the British Foreign Secret Service, I had to undertake a voyage to the outer islands of the Hebrides, situated about one hundred miles into the...

IMPUTATIONS--NORWEGIAN CHARACTERISTICS--CASEMENT'S LETTER TO SIR EDWARD GREY--IRISH INTERESTS--SURREPTITIOUS VISITS TO THE EMBASSY--ENVOYÉ EXTRAORDINAIRE--£10,000 FOR CASEMENT'S...

"YOU BRITISH WILL ALWAYS BE FOOLS AND WE GERMANS SHALL NEVER BE GENTLEMEN"--SILHOUETTE LIFEBOAT FOR GUN COVERING--A SECRET OF THE WAR EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED--MORE IDEAS FOR M...

HOW THE DASTARDLY DEED WAS PLANNED--COMMEMORATION MEDAL PREMATURELY DATED--SINKING ANNOUNCED IN BERLIN BEFORE THE VESSEL WAS ATTACKED--GERMAN JOY AT THE OUTRAGE--BRITISH SECRET...

AMBASSADORS SELECTED BY INFLUENCE, NOT MERIT--GERMAN EMBASSIES HEADQUARTERS OF ESPIONAGE--HOW ENGLISH EMBASSIES HAMPERED SECRET SERVICE WORK--BERNHARDI ON THE BLOCKADE--ENGLAND'...

SECRET SERVICE PROTEST AGAINST THE OPEN DOOR TO GERMANY--ACTIVITY OF OUR NAVAL ARM NULLIFIED--LORD NORTHCLIFFE'S PATRIOTISM--BLOCKADE BUNKUM--POSITION OF DENMARK--HUGE CONSIGNME...