A FAMOUS SPY

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 12, 16 January 1928, Page 8

A FAMOUS SPY

INTENDS /TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND (From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 6th January. The "Daily Guardian" publishes au interesting story concerning a famous spy, Captain Nicholas Everett, who arrived in Sydney by the Changte on Wednesday. He was formerly an officer in the British Secret Service, and the ex-Kaiser put a big price on his head during the war. He has seven deep knife scars on various parts of his body, a jugular vein which has been severed and patched by surgery, and a hole in Ms head as big as a hen's "Among numerous daring exploits, says the "Guardian," "Captain Everett secured for the British War Office details of the mammoth enemy gun Big Bertha, the Zeppelins, and silhouettes of the German fleet before and after the Battle of Heligoland. He is also responsible for capturing some of the most dangerous male and female German spies who operated against tho Allies. It was in the guise of a German fisherman busily fishing off Kiel that ho obtained the valuable naval silhouettes which led to the price being put on his head subsequently. Pursued from the Zeppelin works on one occasion, he managed to reach an island, and when his pursuers reached it later he joined them in the search for himself in a peasants disguise. "He is the author of 'The British Foreign Secret Service during the War,' published by Hutchinson in 1920. While in Australia ha is to do some trout fishing, and will then be tripping across the Tasman to join Zane Grey and other international fishermen in the quest for giant swordfish and other deep-water denizens."