... SPYING BY BITES. A new form of kite or kite traia which lifts a man in a balloon basket to a considerable height for the purpose of obeervation, when the wind is too strong to employ a captive balloon, has been introduced into the French army. The arrangement ...

... who refused > accept the advice of competent authorities n the spot as to the number and kind of en Tequired. The modern “ spy,” indeed, } as essential to schemes of defence and ttack as ever, and we may accept it as ver xiom that, if there is more than ...

... AS A SPY. Mr. Joseph Ernest Geddes, a British merchant at Hong Kong, is en route to London to petition the Foreign Office relative to his arrest by Ruseiane as an alleged spy. He states that having obtained permission to trade in Manchuria, he left hie ...

... SPYING ON !MUNITIONS. HOW I NFOLMATION MAY HI: TH4 HTI.I>ISLY 4.4 ON V a. Thu Minitor of 31unit Lois appeal:. to *he inure of tont roll' e..t41)1 ishntent 9, to all pderion4 rt.roonsiltle aggr the of and to thg• lathlie getterally to guard ttuain4 ...

... THE SUSPECTED SPY. During the time that bold military rule Madrid, he had occasion to send important dispatches to Junot, then at Lisbon ; but was a matter of great difficulty, as all the roads to Lisbon were in possession of the army of Castagnos troops ...

... THE SPY SYSTEM. In reference to the atrocious plot discovered at A dare, amongst some wretches who had been witnesses in Crown prosecutions, the LimcricL Reporter contains the following:—We have been informed that Mr. Goold has heard from the Castle ...

... AN ELABORATE SPY SYSTEM. Here comes an analysis of Cecil Rhodes's character. as now viewed by the lady. In her bitterness she cannot at least deny that he had the most generous instincts. the trouble, according to her, began when she endeavoured to ...

... OFFICERS FOR SPY PURPOSES. Prom quarters closely connected with the Dreyfus family, branch of which, is known, possesses large weaving millsi in Alsace, Berlin ncwspsi vr has received some statements about the reaeonewhicb are said to have led to the ...

... ARREsr OF AN ALLSGED SPY. An alleged °Pima° spy who has long been an object of suspicion has just been arrested. He was followed about through Germany, Austria, and Italy by a couple of detectives. they even kept him in view as far as Russia, whence they ...

... A POLICE SPY. Three young men, named Slllolo4i Cooper, Albert Toft, and George Toft, were charged before the Sol• ford Stipendiary with breaking open the shop of John Allen LitUewood, clothier, and stealing 26 pairs of trousers, six boys' suits, and other ...

... A PLAGUE OF SPYING. The Noion. in connection with the arrest of Lieutenant Helm at Portsmouth. hae this comment: It is difficult to believe that the essential facts about any new fortification remain a secret for many months after it is completed. The ...

... A SUPPOSED SPY. New York police have in custody a man who was arrested on board a steamer about to sail from this port for England. It was alleged that the man is a spy in the service of the Spanish Goveminent, and that in his trunks were found plans ...