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Rh  Good day, Sir Malcolm. Sit down.

 [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.

 Good!

 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.

 And what have you discovered?

 That large numbers of enemy aliens, male and female——  Male and female?  [Nodding.] — have been carrying on a subterranean propaganda by means of clubs——  Clubs?