Frenchmen Unwilling Spies—Paris Centre of vast Police Network of Spies—Colonel Henry's Fate—The Prevalence of the _Dossier_—Fame and the _Dossier_—The _Agent Provocateur_—Divisions of French Secret Service—Esterhazy's Seventeen _Poursuivants_—M. Bertillon's Bureau—Lower Orders of Spies—Forced Espionage—Newspaper and Bankers' Spies—The French War Office well informed—Renan's Views
Germans are Natural Spies—The Principles of Frederick the Great—_Matinées du Roi de Prusse_—Royal Views on War, Religion, Policy, Justice—Essential Militarism of Social Germany—Price Collier's Opinion—Stieber the Organiser of German Espionage—His Origin, Character, Unscrupulousness—Employed by his Sovereign—His Importance in Official Circles—His Activity in all Classes of Society—His Decorations of Honour—Bismarck meets a Kindred Soul—Stieber "fixes" Bohemia—Downfall of Austria at Sadowa—Stieber promoted
Bismarck's Faith in Stieber—Red Eagle for the Sleuth—Stieber's Preparation to _invade_ France—His Requisitions of Female Agents—An Attempted Assassination—Bismarck's Far-sightedness—Stieber precedes the Army of 1870—His Duties in the Field—A Pen Picture of De Gallifet—Stieber's Ferocity and Boastfulness—The Reptile Press—Bismarck and the Sleuth—Shooting a Bridegroom—German Gold wins Friends—Importance of Stieber in Berlin—His Wealth and Social Pretensions—Fears the Theatre and Literature—Meeting with Mommsen—Berlin a new _Urbs Sacra_
German Strategic Railways—Their Military _Personnel_ and Character—Stieber's Railway Spies in France—His Foreign Agents of Domestic Unrest—England also "covered"—Stieberism and the Dreyfus Case—Economic Unrest and Berlin Gold—An Appeal to Irishmen—The Mesnard Pamphlet—Who financed the Suffragettes? (_Note_)—Death of Stieber—His Decorations of _Honour_—German Lecturers and Teutonic Ambitions—Jewish Eugenics copied—Prussia's National Missionaries—Creation of "Sympathetic" Areas—Stieberism a Sink of Immorality—"All is Justifiable"—How France was overrun—German Sleuths at Work—The Residential Spy
Berlin and Polyænus—What the Spy has to find out—Lanoir's Tales in Point—Buying a Subaltern—£8000 to a Lieutenant—Berlin pays £10,000 for False Information—A Pole _does_ the Bureau for £4000—German Spies in 1914—The War Lord's _Un_acted Drama—Germanising Influences in Belgium—Rhodes Scholarships objected to—Ex-Priests in German Army—Cipher and Red Man's Signals