BRITISH INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 14958, 4 January 1919, Page 5

BRITISH INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT.

RETIREMENT OF THE DIRECTOR

AN INTERESTING REVIEW

(Australian and N-Z. Cable Association)

(Received Jan. 4, 1.25 a.m.)

London, Jan. 2.

General G. K. Cockerill is retiring from the post of director of the Bureau of Special Intelligence at the War Office. In taking farewell of his assistants, he stated that the bureau had saved the Empire at least 200 millions by successfully counteracting enemy activities. It detected and checked the Germans' active speculation in raw material, and closed certain channels of enemy propaganda, and kept others open for the distribution of British propaganda in enemy countries, on which the postage was prepaid by the Germans.

General Cockerill paid a tribute to the' intelligence departments of the Dominions and colonies.