ANOTHER HUN INVASION.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1706, 22 December 1919, Page 5

ANOTHER HUN INVASION.

GERMAN SPIES AT WORK. By Eleotrio Telegraph.—Copyright. Aimtralian-New Zealand Cable Association Recoived December 22, 9.0 .a.m. • LONDON, Dec. 18. Large numbers of Germans have returned to Great Britain and are prominent in public places and hotels. Tho German language is heard in buses and trains, evoking silent but unconcealed dislike.

Solicitor-General Pollock, giving evidence before tho House of Commons Committee which is considering tlio proposalto continue to the polico and military power to search without warrant, said German spies were passing backwards and forwards, securing dangerous information, and rewcaving the insidious network which did such damago early in the war. Mr J. G. Butcher, M.P., leader of tho British Watchdogs, stateß that many of the returning spies are the British wives of Germans. These rank their husband's interests above the nation's. , ..„ ,'• . Scotland Yard admits the difficulty of dealing with Gorman commercial men, holding credentials from important firms with which Britain desires to do business. There is even a greater difficulty in tracking women agents.