A few days before I was last in this building a fine-looking fellow in khaki uniform entered in haste and asked the janitor to show him to the roof that he might quickly inspect that gun and see that everything was in order, as raids might be expected at any moment.

Of course, he was taken to the roof, and his inspection quickly completed.

Ten minutes later the London police were there to inquire for a man in khaki uniform.
The English officer said, "Very singular, we are ten minutes behind that fellow everywhere.

He is the cleverest of all the German spies, and we are not able to catch him!" If that spy had been caught in his English uniform inspecting English defenses, would not everything have been kept quiet in the endeavor to pick up the lines of his foreign communications?
In writing home from England, even to my family, toward the close of 1914, I thought it just as well to be brief and not too definite with any information.

I had seen some of the censorship regulations and envelopes resealed with a paper bearing heavy black letters, "Opened by censor," with the number of the censor, showing that there are more than one hundred people engaged in this work; and also directions from the censorship that "responses to this inquiry must be submitted," etc., etc.
Nobody could believe until this war broke out and there descended upon peaceful Belgium not only armies and demands for their shelter, maintenance and food, and drink, but also huge demands for financial indemnification--war tax levies upon cities, towns, and provinces, with individuals held as hostages for their payment--that German war plans meant the looting, not only of nations and states, but of individual fortunes and properties.
It now seems that the march to Paris through Belgium and the imposition of a huge redemption tax upon Paris and France were but the preliminaries to larger demands upon London and England.
Indeed, judged by the demands upon Belgium, the German plans contemplated the transfer of the wealth of France and the British Empire to Germany; and such enslavement of these peoples as would make Germany rich, powerful and triumphant for many generations, if not forever, over the whole habitable globe.