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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 2

Germany is suffering from -a violent attack of spy fever. During the past four years nearly 400 cases of espionage have been tried, and a prosecution which, took place recently was the 120 th within twelve months. Coupled with this spy fever, the feeding against foreigners has almost risen to war heights. Swindlers are taking advantage of this. An Englishman, stated to bo Hubert Walter, of Manchester, has* been robbed of €BOO. He had trouble over the passport regulations, and when- a> man representing himself to be Police Commissioner Engelbrccht called on him, the Englishman handed over a. milllli’oii marks, and Engelbrccht disappeared. An actor was stopped one day by a pretty girl, who pinned a yellow chrysanthemum in his buttonhole, gave him a dazzling smile, and hurried off without a word. The actor went on his way, and that evening ho received a note from the girl reminding him of the afternoon’s romantic episode, and asking him to send her two seats as a memento of the occasion. The actor, with a grim smile, snatched up a postcard and wrote thg pretty girl these lines;—“l should be delighted to send you the seats you ask for as a memento, but on personal investigation at the.theatre I find that they are all nailed down.” The old refrain. When the Pigs Begin to Fly, is now quite out of date. Pigs have actually gone over from England to France hv aeroplane, and Lady Anderson, wife of Sir John Anderson, has sent to Paris by aeroplane 32 Light Sussex prize bird's from her poultry farm in Bedfordshire.