He thought the authorities ought to know what was going on, but received a polite invitation from the local police to mind his own business.

When once he lost his way on a motor-car trip, and ran across these fellows, he was very glad to get the right directions for the shortest way home.

They knew more about the roads of that country than did the people who were born there.
About 20,000 German spies and reservists are in detention camps on the west coast, and on the islands.

Even the German prisoners are kept away from the east coast, where it is expected the Germans may eventually struggle for their landing.
I have not the slightest confidence in any invasion of England by Germany, but I do not understand why German Zeppelins do not move in the darkness over the British Isles and drop a few bombs about the country at important places.

It may be that the German Emperor is right in his calculation that such action would do very little damage, and would strengthen tremendously the enlistments and war-expansion plans of the English.
When West Hartlepool, Whitby, and Scarborough were bombarded by the German warships on the morning of December 16, the English excitement concerning it was only a small part of what an American would have expected.