Mr. Pompous, MJP.': "You'd like to have a look at Parliament. Well, my dear madam, Til see if I can,get you ait order for the gallery." Mrs. Smithers (with fine scorn): "The gallery, indeed! The idea! If I can't got m the •tails or dress circle I won't go at all."
Some extraordinary stories are being told by officers back from the front aa to the dodges resorted to by German spies m order to obtain Information of Importance to the enemy. Quito recently two Germans dressed up as brigadier-generals of the British Army are understood to have ,been captured, while a German officer wan discovered m the belfry of a clock tower, whore he had been for somo months signalling to the enemy through- the manipulation of the hands of the clock. It was also found that fee had provisions enough to keep him pring for many months longer.
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NZ Truth, Issue 580, 29 July 1916, Page 12
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150Untitled NZ Truth, Issue 580, 29 July 1916, Page 12
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