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Aliens and spies

  • A German to be deported
    A German to be deported
    A 70 year old German Tailor is remanded in custody prior to a recommendation for deportation
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  • Enemy aliens
    Enemy aliens
    As the war started, suspicion of foreigners, particularly Belgians and Germans, began to be reported in the local newspapers.
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  • German spy - Karel Richard Richter
    German spy - Karel Richard Richter
    German parachutist spy arrested and executed.
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  • Our German guest sent to prison
    Our German guest sent to prison
    At Bow Street Police Court on Friday, Henry Sonnet, 56, a German gardener of Old Cross, Hertford, was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for travelling more than five miles from his registered address without permit.
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  • The boy scout spy
    The boy scout spy
    From the Guard Occurrence Book it seems the war had little impact (apart from the “spy” scare) on a small Herts town where life seemed to “go on as usual”.
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  • The circus and the spies
    The circus and the spies
    These details are from two Home Office circulars to county police chiefs in England regarding the threat posed by undercover German spies, 10 June and 6 July 1916.
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  • The German Farm Colony
    The German Farm Colony
    Ongong concerns about the German Farm Colony at Libury Hall detention camp at Munden, why it was being guarded by the local police force rather than the military authorities
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  • Was he a spy ?
    Was he a spy ?
    On the 25th April 1915, Albert Patrick of the Liberal Club, Bishop’s Stortford, reported that about 5.30 p.m. whilst walking along the Hallingbury Road, near Garden Fields, he saw a man loitering, looking towards the railway line.
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  • What's in a name ?
    What's in a name ?
    James Capel, of Havelock Cottages, Railway Street, Hertford, was summoned for assaulting James Kelf.
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