The Morning Post has been publishing some extremely interesting articles
about the German spy system in Great Britain during the war. The chief impression we receive is that the much-belauded and much-feared German spy system was a " frost." Most of the spies were the merest amateurs at their job. They had never studied or been properly trained for that job, and seemed to have arisen, as it were, in response to the general sense that the German spy system was a most magnificent and important affair. Our own counter-spy system, the product of the British Intelligence Departments, beat them at every point of the game. The German Govern- ment did not feed their spies properly with funds ; became alarmed when their spies, whose fate was the result of German neglect or stupidity, were easily captured ; and ultimately relied in vain upon the services of mercenary neutrals.
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