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Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 Foiled! The Enemy in Our Own Land : The Thrilling Experience of Detective Dunnett Against German Spies in Australia as Chronicled by W. Gordon Henderson
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  • Supposedly fictionalised account of the activities of German spies in Australia before and during WWI.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Australian News Company , 1915 .
      Extent: 89 p., [1] p platesp.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Dedication: Dedicated to the Men who have gone to the Front, to those who are going to follow, and to the men who are fighting The Enemy in Our Own Land.
      • From the Foreword: The object of this volume is to convey to the average citizen, in narrative form, some idea of the system on which the Kaiser's spies work. These stories...are not presented as facts, simply because the publication of facts at the present time is a military offence; but there is sufficient of fact embodied in them... Sydney, August 25, 1915. W. G. H.
      • Contains a final chapter, 'Facts'; a contemporary discussion on 'further limiting the freedom of action of persons of German extraction in Australia'.
      • Back cover and illustrations: calls to enlist.
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The Enemy in Our Midst 1915 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Town and Country Journal , 20 October vol. 89 no. 2385 1915; (p. 50)
— Review of Foiled! The Enemy in Our Own Land : The Thrilling Experience of Detective Dunnett Against German Spies in Australia as Chronicled by W. Gordon Henderson W. Gordon Henderson , 1915 single work novel
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