Lord Dorminster tells me that you are to-day without a secret service.

For that reason you have remained in ignorance of the mines beneath your feet.

Germany has laid her plans well and carefully.

Her first and greatest weapon has been your sense of security.

She has seen you contemplate with an ill-advised smile of spurious satisfaction, invincible France, regaining her wealth more slowly than you for the simple reason that half the man power of the country is absorbed by her military preparations.