Reconnoitring Exposed and Thwarted

137 CHAPTER X THE MYSTERIOUS HARBOUR Frontier Prowling—Startling Rumours—Terrible Weather—Evading Sentries—Mapping the Works—Refuge with Smuggler—Confidences on Super-Submarines and Zeppelins—A Country Inn—Preparing Despatches—Forcible Intrusion—Arrested for a German Spy—Search and Interrogation—Summary Trial—Tricking the Searchers—Committed for Trial—Escape 148 CHAPTER XI MAD GAMBLING AND A BIG BRIBE Kaleidoscope Changes in Secret Service Agent's Life—Called to Norwegian Capital for Orders—Enforced Idleness—A War Gambler—Huge Credits—Twisting the Tail of the British Lion—Averting Possible War—Frenzied Finance—A Colossal Bribe—Top-heavy Argument—Newspaper Influence—A Good Bargain for England—Millionaire in Three Days 161 CHAPTER XII SHADOWED BY POLICE Posing as a Journalist—Credentials—Subtle Suggestions—Suspicions—A Fallen Star—Sold to the Police—Instinctive Warnings—Temptation—Intercepted Adulations—A Serious Blow—Tests—Danger Signals—Flight—Herr Schmidt—Double Tracking—Arrest Warrant Postponed 170 CHAPTER XIII DODGING FRONTIER GUARDS AND SEARCHING FOR
ONE'S SELF Frontier Guards—Smugglers—Rigorous Searches—Unearthing Valuable German Secrets Regarding Super-Zeppelins, Submarines and the Paris Big Cannon—A Loquacious Waiter—Head-money for My Capture—25,000 Marks, Dead or Alive—Looking for Oneself—A Capture—Crossing the Schleswig Frontier—A Friend in Need—Dangerous Enterprise—Kiel Harbour—Safe Return 180 CHAPTER XIV AVOIDING COLD MURDER Swarms of Bagmen—Jesuitical Methods—Mysterious Disappearances—Unaccountable Accidents—Avoiding a Duel—Fascinated by a Hungarian—A Ludicrous Traveller—Fracas at a Theatre—Insult, Assault and Challenge—Choosing Weapons—Difficulties Overcome—Fixing Details—Early Travelling—Dénouement—"Am Tag" 190 CHAPTER XV ESCAPING FROM A SUBMARINE A Ship of Ill-Omen—Attacked—Hell Let Loose—Panic—Fight for the Boats—Cowardly Conduct—Powerless to Act—Shrapnel at Sea—Surrender—Taking Charge of Ship and Carrying on—Value of Smoke Boxes—Terrible Anticipations—Land at Last—Reminiscences Untold 200 CHAPTER XVI THE CASEMENT AFFAIR Grave Imputations—Norwegian Characteristics—Casement's Letter to Sir Edward Grey—Irish Interests—Surreptitious Visits to the Embassy—Envoyé Extraordinaire—£10,000 for Casement's Servant—Casement's Explanations, Comments, Kidnapping and Murder Allegations—Sir F. E. Smith on Casement's Life and Actions—A Bad Mistake 211 CHAPTER XVII PERTAINING TO MYSTERY SHIPS "You British will Always be Fools and we Germans shall never be Gentlemen"—Silhouette Lifeboat for Gun-covering—A Secret of the War Explained and Illustrated—More Ideas for Mystery Ships Described—Secret Thanks—Successful Results from Camouflage at Sea—The Gratitude of the Admiralty 225 CHAPTER XVIII THE SINKING OF THE "LUSITANIA" BY GERMAN
TREACHERY How the Dastardly Deed was Planned—Commemoration Medal Prematurely Dated—Sinking Announced in Berlin before the Vessel was Attacked—German Joy at the Outrage—British Secret Code Stolen—Violations of American Neutrality—False Messages—Authority for the Facts 235 CHAPTER XIX MINISTERIAL, DIPLOMATIC, AND CONSULAR
FAILINGS Ministers Selected by Influence, not Merit—German Embassies Headquarters of Espionage—How English Embassies Hampered Secret Service Work—Bernhardi on the Blockade—England's Open Doors—A Minister's Failings—British Vice-Consul's Scandalous Remuneration—Alien Consuls—How Italy was Brought into the War—How the Sympathies of Turkey and Greece were Lost—The Failure of Sir Edward Grey—Asquith's Procrastination 239 CHAPTER XX THE SHAM BLOCKADE Secret Service Protest against the Open Door to Germany—Activity of our Naval Arm Nullified—Lord Northcliffe's Patriotism—Blockade Bunkum—Position of Denmark—Huge Consignments for Germany—The Declaration Fiasco—British Minister's Gullibility in Copenhagen—German Bank Guaranteeing the British against Goods going to Germany—British Navy Paralysed by Diplomatic and Political Folly—Statistics Extraordinary—Flouting the Declaration of London—Sir Edward Grey's Dilatoriness and Puerile Apologia—Lord Haldane Pushed out—Lord