Sir Robert.
Good day, Sir Malcolm. Sit down.
Sir Malcolm.
[Sitting.] According to instructions from the Home
Department, I have come to report to you personally
the result of the work of the Metropolitan Police in
carrying out the new regulations of the military
authorities with respect to enemy aliens. The register
is now practically complete, sir.
Sir Robert.
Good!
Sir Malcolm.
We have devoted ourselves especially to that part
of the register in which you are yourself particularly interested—the professional classes, who in the
previous war so often evaded observation.
Sir Robert.
And what have you discovered?
Sir Malcolm.
That large numbers of enemy aliens, male and
female——
Sir Robert.
Male and female?
Sir Malcolm.
[Nodding.] — have been carrying on a subterranean
propaganda by means of clubs——
Sir Robert.
Clubs?
