The " British Secret Document " We referred last week
to the " British secret document " • which Mr. William B. Shearer has used as his trump card during his examination by the Sub-Committee of the American Senate. He said that this document disclosed a plot by Great Britain to repossess herself of the United States and that photographs of it had been taken by the Navy Department. • Sir William Wiseman, who was Head of the British Secret Service during the War and who was said to have signed the document, telegraphed to the Senate that it -was evidently a clumsy forgery. That was all we knew last week, but an article in the Observer throws much more light upon the subject. We know now that the so-called secret document was a squib written by a clever Irishman who circulated this piece of high-spirited nonsense ten years ago as a parody of Lord Northcliffe's propaganda.
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