[Enclosed is a newspaper cutting with an article entitled ‘6000 Spies in Britain. Nearly All Are Under Detention. Scotland Yard’s Swoop’.]

Before the war of 1914, Scotland Yard kept a network of German spies in England under surveillance for a long time without arresting them. The Germans were off their guard. The day after war was declared, the entire network was arrested and put in prison. Germany found itself without informers at the time when it needed them most and was forced to create a new network during the war, which was very difficult. Of course, it could never be a patch on the old one.