A CASTLE IN SPAIN
AMUSING SECRET SERVICE STORY,
The 3larqnis of Ha.rtington, writing in the Buxton ‘ Literary Jlagazine ’ on ‘ Paris During tho War,’ says : On one occasion we had a. good laugh, at a certain worthy professor, who, like a good many other’s, had been enrolled into the Intelligence Department. This painstaking man, who was ehgaged on the detection of leakages in the blockade, wrote an enormous memorandum on tho sinister -ramifications of the firm of “E. Hijos,” in Spain. Jn eighty pages of typewritten foolscap ho traced the workings of this ruffian, showed how he was more or less interested in every firm which was smuggling iron ore to Germany, supplying enemy submarines, or otherwise acting to the prejudice of the Allies, -and in a masterly summing up suggested a means of checkmating him. Next day he learned—and he was never allowed lo forget it—that “a Hijos” is simply the Spanish for “ and Sons.”
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Evening Star, Issue 17706, 6 July 1921, Page 6
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155A CASTLE IN SPAIN Evening Star, Issue 17706, 6 July 1921, Page 6
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