BRITISH SPIES IN FOREIGN LANDS.
Lv spite of all popular belief ,to the contrary, it would astonish the general ; v public yto know to i what (extent .we ourselves practise tho kind of ;: espionage which wo aro now so indignantly imputing to the Germans. To speak of nothing: olse, this 'may be gathered from the military memoirs and biographies published in * recent r year&-such' , as the lives of ■ Sir' John:; Ardagh,' Sir Charles i Wilson, Sir Henry Brackenbury .(" Somo Memories of my Spare Time"), and- other : scientific officers,- where the reader will find >in almost every chapter references to secret service missions ;on the \ Continent '■■■ and elsewhere. Before retiring. from the Grenadier Guards, in circumstances which may be remembered, Mr. H. C. Woods undertook;several such tours in the Near East , (vido his " Washed by Four Seas"): for the ferreting out of ; information that would be usoful to our 1 War Office. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14302, 23 February 1910, Page 9
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