GAINING INFORMATION
INTELLIGENCE AND RECONNAISSANCE METHODS.
LONDON, Dec. 17
The Press Bureau says: "An eye-wit-ness describes intelligence and) reconnaissance methods, and the way information is gained by the inspection of the uniforms on the dead or by cross-examina-tion of prisoners, and adds: 'The newspapers rarely value this, becaxise no sane "Government* allows, current details of the nature sought to be published. . On the other hand, soldiers' diaries and. letters are often indiscreet, and unwittirigly fcetra-v the state of their morale and dis-close-where the shoe pinches. A considerable part of the intelligence work is of a synthetic character that points to the building up, first, of a .possible and then a probable theory based on a mass of suspicious facts, which merely amount ito side-lights, and not established evidence. Often an apparently useless scrap of information forms the final link in the chain of evidence.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 19 December 1914, Page 5
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