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BRITISH SECRET SERVICE
DURING THE GREAT WAR
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British Secret Service
during the Great War
 BY NICHOLAS EVERITT
Author of
"Round the World in Strange Company," etc., etc.
Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Dryden.
THIRD EDITION
LONDON: HUTCHINSON & CO.
PATERNOSTER ROW
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THIS BOOK
IS DEDICATED TO
VISCOUNT NORTHCLIFFE
WHO
DURING THE THROES OF OUR NATIONAL
CRISIS PROVED HIMSELF THE GREATEST
OF ALL LIVING ENGLISHMEN
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 CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
WAR AND THE INTRODUCING OF JIM
PAGE
The Prosperity of 1914—An Ominous Calm—Multitude of GermanSpies—How England was Undermined—Shortsightednessof our Liberal Government—Secret Knowledge of ProminentMen—Sir Edward Goschen's Historical Despatch—Rushto the Colours—Our Unpreparedness—IntroducingJim—Patriots from Afar—F. C. Selous' Roughriders—Initiationinto the Foreign Secret Service—AdvisoryTestamentary Dispositions27
CHAPTER II
SECRET SERVICE ORGANISATIONS, COMPARISONS
AND INCIDENTALS
Espionage in Past Ages—Modern British Secret Service Founded,1910—Possible Improvements—Comparisons—Jealousies ofBig Departments—Examples of Reckless Extravagance—BusinessMen Wanted—Economies in the Secret Service—BunglingIncompetence—Impassiveness of the ForeignOffice—German War Methods—French and Dutch SecretService—Military Intelligence, B.C.—Rise and Developmentof German Secret Service—The Efficiency of ScotlandYard—Details of German Foreign Propaganda and Expenditure—BritishSecret Service: Its Cost and Frugalities—MajorHenri le Caron—Nathan Hale—Similitude of theLife of a Secret Service Agent44
CHAPTER III
INITIATION TO ACTIVE WORK
Crossing the North Sea—A Memorable Meeting—Instructions—Ona Cargo Boat—Snow-storms—False Alarm—DanishProfiteers—English Consul Profiteering in Food to Germany—Horse-smuggling—Meeting my C.O.—Blooded74
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CHAPTER IV
INTER-COMMUNICATING WITH TEMPORARY CODES
AND INCIDENTS
Grammatical Code—A Tête-à-Tête—Confidences—MisconstruedMessage leads to Domestic Tragedy—Local Codes—AnAltered Message—An Important Mission—Shadowed—AttemptedThefts of Papers—A Contre                        
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